Crossword clues for paunch
paunch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paunch \Paunch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paunched; p. pr. & vb. n. Paunching.]
To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
--Shak.To stuff with food. [Obs.]
--Udall.
Paunch \Paunch\, n. [OF. panch, pance, F. panse, L. pantex, panticis.]
(Anat.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
(Naut.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
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The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (late 12c. in surnames), from Old French pance (Old North French panche) "belly, stomach," from Latin panticem (nominative pantex) "belly, bowels" (source also of Spanish panza, Italian pancia); possibly related to panus "swelling" (see panic (n.2)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The first stomach of a ruminant, the rumen. 2 The abdomen or belly of a human or animal, especially a large, protruding one. 3 (context nautical English) A paunch mat. 4 The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper. vb. To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.
WordNet
n. a protruding abdomen [syn: belly]
Usage examples of "paunch".
Mallick Rel, his fat, soft hands folded together and resting on his paunch, his skin the colour of oiled leather and smelling of Aren perfumes.
Under the tight black barathea, under the held-in paunch, is the soul of conforming man.
Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry.
To see him pad his paunch with dainty cheer, Puff his perfecto, swill champagne, and sway Just like a gentleman, yet all in play, Then bow himself off stage with brutish leer.
When the masseuse called to him that the bath was full, he self-assuredly stepped forward with his paunch thrust out and, with relish, sprawled in the water.
There was True Timothy, the king of the palliards, a vast browsing figure, whose paunch stuck out beyond the others like a flying buttress.
In his presence I became uncomfortably aware of my male-patterned baldness and slight, unathletic paunch.
The friar, ruddy and well paunched, shook the unpenitent one into bleary wakefulness.
Not a paunch, not a bulge, not an untoned muscle, not a hint of excess flesh.
The Atlantean was shorter by an inch or two than himself, thick of upper arm and shoulder, the width of which was somewhat balanced by a sizable paunch.
Amongst these aircrews, however, his slight paunch was Falstaffian, his pate Pickwickian and his cheerful nose Cyrano-like.
They fumbled for a bit, him staring intently at the sofa cushion beside her head and her gaping glassily up at the ceiling, but they apparently got it in, because his pale, wrinkled butt started plunging up and down, his slight paunch slapping meatily into her massive one.
KdF ship alone, apart from the maypole dancing on the white deck, the tanned bodies full of beer and song, paunches in sunsuits, and you listened to Ur-Spanish, whistled not voiced, from the mountains around Chipuda .
But how greatly did I curse Fotis, in that shee transformed me into an Asse, and not into a dogge, because I saw the dogges had filled their paunches with the reliks and bones of so worthy a supper.
But my furious gorge, and empty paunch, so lusteth after a repossession of my famous town of Mansoul, that whatever comes out, I can wait no longer to see the events of lingering projects.