Paunchy

Definition: Paunchy

Paunchy

Adjective

1. Having a large belly.

Date "paunchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Note: Paunchy \Paunch"y\, adjective. Pot-bellied.. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Paunchy

Synonyms: abdominous (adj), potbellied (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Paunchy

Specialty definitions using "paunchy": Friar Tuck. (references)

"Paunchy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Paunchy" is used about 11 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
Adjective (general or positive)	90.91%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

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 "paunchy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		barkmadh (abdominous), barkalec. (various references)

Arabic		‏كبير الكرش, ‏متكرش. (various references)

Bulgarian		шкембелия (potbelly). (various references)

Czech		břichatý (potbellied). (various references)

French		pansu, ventru. (various references)

German		dickbäuchig (potbellied). (various references)

Greek		προγάστωρ. (various references)

Hebrew		כרסן (portly, potbellied, potbelly), כרסתן (bellied, portly, potbellied), כרס� י (portly, potbellied). (various references)

Hungarian		potrohos (pot-bellied, swag-bellied), pocakos (gutty, portly, pot-bellied, roundabout, swag-bellied, tubby). (various references)

Indonesian		gembrot (big bellied). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		便便たる (protuberant), 便々たる (protuberant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		べ�"べ�"たる (protuberant). (various references)

Manx		prinjeigagh (big-bellied, pot-bellied). (various references)

Pig Latin		aunchypay

Portuguese		esventrar. (various references)

Romanian		burtos (big, big bellied), burduhos (big bellied, pot-bellied). (various references)

Russian		толстый (abdominous, fat, fleshy, gross, porky, stout, stubby, thick, well-fed), с брюшком. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trbušasto, trbušast (abdominous). (various references)

Spanish		panzudo, barrigón (big bellied, pursy). (various references)

Swedish		med kula. (various references)

Turkish		koca göbekli (pot-bellied), göbekli (bellied, potbellied). (various references)

Ukranian		пузатий (abdominous, bellied). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Paunchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nauchny, panuch, Pauntly, Phunky, pouchy, pounch, Punchi, Saunchie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "paunchy" (pronounced pô"nkhē)
4	-ô" n kh ē	raunchy.
3	-n kh ē	bunchy, crunchy, punchy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-n-p-u-y"
	-1 letter: paunch, punchy.
	-2 letters: nucha, punch, uncap.
	-3 letters: achy, caph, chap, chay, cyan, puna, puny, yaup, yuan, yuca, yuch.
	-4 letters: any, can, cap, cay, cup, hap, hay, hun, hup, hyp, nah, nap, nay, pac, pah, pan, pay, pun, pya, yah, yap, yup.
	-5 letters: ah, an, ay, ha, na, nu, pa, uh, un, up, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-n-p-u-y"
	+3 letters: picayunish.
	+5 letters: autohypnotic, euphonically.
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