paunchy

comparative paunchier · superlative paunchiest

1. Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.

   He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.

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   A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

   1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry, page 269

   "They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"

   1976, Robert Herrick, Waste, Ayer Publishing, page 55

   "I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a little paunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality."

   2002 December 15, Debra Galant, “JERSEY; She Loved Him, She Loved Him Not, She Loves Him”, in The New York Times

   The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’s paunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.

   2018 October 7, Andrew R. Chow, “There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote on Your Favorite”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: paunched