paunches

noun

plural of paunch
as in bellies
an enlarged or bulging abdomen Santa is depicted as a white-bearded man with a big paunch

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Recent Examples of paunches The hair may be grayer, the paunches a little more pronounced, and the joints a little creakier, but the Jackass promise of delivering the missing link between the Three Stooges and a snuff film remains. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paunches
  1. bellies
  2. stomachs
  3. corporations
Noun
  • Proof that the babies aren’t born with hatred in their bellies and in their blood.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • Every day, the snow crept farther down the mountains, and as the horses waded the creeks, ice froze on their tails and bellies.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
Definition of bellies
Noun
  • Preliminary laboratory tests detected cyanide, while postmortem examinations found tomatoes in the animals’ stomachs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • About 80 to 100 transgenic larvae were delivered into the Syrian golden hamsters’ stomachs.
    — Jay Kakade August 05, Refractor, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of stomachs
Noun
  • The city of Denver filed a lawsuit last week to hold major tobacco companies accountable, going after corporations that manufacture popular cigarette brands like Marlboro and Camel to pay up for the cost of cleanup.
    — Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Like any good far future dystopia, SpaceCorp positions massive corporations as the true governing entities of the future, swapping in private investors for diplomats and corporate boards for politicians.
    — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of corporations

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