Paunch

Definition: Paunch

Paunch

Noun

1. A protruding abdomen.

Date "paunch" was first used: 1186. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To see a large paunch, denotes wealth and the total absence of refinement. To see a shriveled paunch, foretells illness and reverses. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Slang in 1811	PAUNCH. The belly. Some think paunch was the original name of that facetious prince of puppets, now called Mr. Punch, as he is always represented with a very prominent belly: though the common opinion is, that both the name and character were taken from a. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonym: Paunch

Synonym: belly (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Paunch

English words defined with "paunch": bay window ♦ corporation ♦ Panch, Paunch mat, Paunched, Paunching, pot, potbelly ♦ tummy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "paunch": Excess ♦ Fat Men ♦ Sancho Panza. (references)

Etymologies containing "paunch": Mundungus. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Paunch 'n' Judy (1940)
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Domain	Title
Books	Allrightniks Row: Haunch Paunch and Jowl: The Making of a Professional Jew (Masterworks of Modern Jewish Writing) (reference) Haunch, paunch and jowl (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
St. Jerome	A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation. Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!
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"Paunch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.18% of the time. "Paunch" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.18%	54	46,184
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.82%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	55	N/A

Expressions using "paunch": Grand paunch ♦ paunch mat. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "paunch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plënc (tripe), mullë (potbelly), bark i dalë (pot, potbelly), bark (abdomen, belly, diarrhoea, midriff, sag, stomach, trough, tummy, Venter). (various references)

Arabic		‏كرش (belly, stomach), ‏المعدة الأولى لحيوان مجتر, ‏بطن (abdomen, back, belly, gorge, interiorize, internalize, line, middle, pad, quilt, redouble, stomach, underlay, venter). (various references)

Bulgarian		търбух (gorge, maw, rumen, stomach), шкембе (pot, potbelly, tripe), корем (abdomen, belly, guts, midriff, tummy), изтърбушвам (disembowel, draw, eviscerate). (various references)

Czech		pandìro, břicho (abdomen, belly, bilge, gut, midriff, stomach), bachor (maw). (various references)

Danish		vom (first stomach, rumen). (various references)

Dutch		pens (first stomach, rumen). (various references)

Farsi		محتویات شکم , امعاء (Intestine), شکم (Abdomen, Belly, Bowel, Breadbasket, Bulge, Gorge, Gut, Kyte, Tummy, Ventricle, Womb), درشکم ریختن . (various references)

Finnish		pötsi (first stomach, rumen). (various references)

French		panse. (various references)

German		Pansen (belly, first stomach, rumen). (various references)

Greek		κοιλιά (abdomen, belly, belt, belt zone, bosh parallel, tummy, waist, womb), μεγάλη κοιλία (first stomach, rumen), υπογάστριο (abdomen, hypogastrium, underbelly). (various references)

Hebrew		כרס (abdomen, belly). (various references)

Hungarian		pocak (corporation, swag-belly). (various references)

Indonesian		perut (abdomen, belly, breadbasket, maw). (various references)

Italian		pancia (belly, bilge, first stomach, rumen, stomach, tummy), rumine (belly, first stomach, rumen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		太�"腹 (potbelly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たい�"ばら (potbelly). (various references)

Manx		prinjeig (belly, potato-belly), pell (prominence of the stomach), panshaghan, gailley mooar, bolg mooar. (various references)

Pig Latin		aunchpay

Portuguese		pança (first stomach, gut, maw, potbelly, rumen). (various references)

Romanian		rumen (florid, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, vermillion), burtã (abdomen, belly, bilge, bottom, gut, guts, pot belly, stomach), burduhan (forty-guts, rumen). (various references)

Russian		брюшко. (various references)

Scottish		maodal. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trbuh (abdomen, belly), mešina (blackjack, skinful), burag (rumen). (various references)

Spanish		panza (belly, bilge, embarrassment, first stomach, rumen), barriga (bay window, belly, bilge, breadbasket, potbelly). (various references)

Swedish		buk (abdomen, abdominal, belly, bilge, bow window, bulge, bunt, tummy). (various references)

Turkish		karın (abdomen, belly, inside, pod, stomach, tum, tummy, Venter, ventral), işkembe (rumen, tripe), göbek (abdomen, bay window, belly, belly button, branch, center, center-piece, centre, centre-piece, core, heart, midpoint, navel, omphalic, omphalos, pod, spare tire, spare tyre, tummy, umbilical, umbilicus). (various references)

Ukranian		рубець (cicatrix, rumen, scar, score, tripe, welt, whelk), жерти, живіт (abdomen, belly, gizzard, stomach), патрати (eviscerate, gut). (various references)

Welsh		poten (pudding), rhumen (belly), cest (belly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	pance, panche. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "paunch": paunched, paunches, paunchier, paunchiest, paunchiness, paunchinesses, paunchy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Paunch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paich, Pancha, panuch, paun, Pepusch, peuch, ponch, poonch, pounch, Puangchon, saunch. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-n-p-u"
	-1 letter: nucha, punch, uncap.
	-2 letters: caph, chap, puna.
	-3 letters: can, cap, cup, hap, hun, hup, nah, nap, pac, pah, pan, pun.
	-4 letters: ah, an, ha, na, nu, pa, uh, un, up.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-n-p-u"
	+1 letter: paunchy.
	+2 letters: capuchin, paunched, paunches.
	+3 letters: capuchins, launchpad, paunchier, prelaunch, punchball, spleuchan.
	+4 letters: chinquapin, launchpads, leprechaun, paunchiest, picayunish, postlaunch, punchballs, punchboard, purchasing, spleuchans, unemphatic, upreaching.
	+5 letters: cacophonous, chinquapins, ipecacuanha, leprechauns, neuropathic, parachuting, paunchiness, punchboards, thunderclap.
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