He sat with his hands folded over his paunch.
He used to be very thin but now he has a slight paunch.
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He had been hit a month or so before, but he had only been clipped across the paunch and the wound was healed.—Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025 After a moment of shock, the designers outfitted him with a pregnant belly to deliver Tom’s now-signature paunch.—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 The display ends and Prabowo strolls the ranks of recruits, asking their home province, their university major, and razzing a couple of the stoutest about their paunch.—Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024 About 200 yards below us is a stag, carrying the paunch and heavy antlers of an old highland warrior.—Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for paunch
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Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French *panche, pance, from Latin pantic-, pantex
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