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单词 paunchiness
释义

paunchy

adjective

ˈpȯn-chē How to pronounce paunchy (audio)
ˈpän-
paunchier; paunchiest
: having a potbelly
paunchiness noun

Synonyms

  • beer-bellied
  • potbellied
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Example Sentences

not surprisingly, the new Hollywood biopic casts a young, athletically trim actor in the role of the paunchy, balding artist
Recent Examples on the Web The paunchy man’s head was resting on the general’s left leg. Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 Unlike castrati of the 17th and 18th centuries — always beardless, and typically tall and paunchy — Mariño is short and lithe, and was already sporting a five o’clock shadow on a recent afternoon walk with Leia, his Cavalier King Charles spaniel. New York Times, 27 May 2022 The father, Alexei Shostakov (played by David Harbour), is now a bearded and paunchy Soviet-era superhero known as Red Guardian, the counterpart of Captain America. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021 One recent late afternoon, a group of paunchy middle-aged men seated in plastic chairs on the sidewalk debated measures to fight the virus. Renata Brito, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2020 The puzzled batter swings at the next pitch, grounds it to short, and is astonished to see the paunchy second-base umpire shifting to his right to field the ball, while the shortstop tries to coach his footwork. Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020 If coolness denotes — or once denoted — a certain indifference to what people think, then these middle-aged mothers with their silly, adorable shtick and their paunchy husbands are perhaps the only cool people left on our try-hard planet. Carina Chocano, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019 In the decades when the Congress party dominated politics, paunchy politicians moved into colonial-era bungalows and travelled first class. The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019 Underestimate his pale, paunchy dad-ness at your own peril. John Wenzel, The Know, 22 Oct. 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above

paunchiness

noun

as in obesity

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • obesity
  • portliness
  • corpulence
  • fatness
  • overweight
  • fat
  • plumpness
  • pudginess
  • stomach
  • chubbiness
  • bay window
  • tummy
  • fleshiness
  • beer belly
  • corporation
  • stoutness
  • heaviness
  • paunch
  • breadbasket
  • chunkiness
  • potbelly
  • belly
  • pot
  • gut
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