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paunches

noun as in large stomach

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Example Sentences

So she was stuck, for a goodish bit of time, with a load of red-faced paunches who thought she was the spawn of hell.

They 'doctored' some rabbit paunches with strychnine cunningly enough, and laid them seductively in the field.

Though they had nothing in their paunches but water yet they were all very fat.

Both have small paunches, and talk rapidly, with emphatic gestures of their hands, features and bodies.

In summer, when rabbit-paunches will not keep on account of the weather, a little valerian root is used as a bait.

Then drooping their venerable heads upon their priestly paunches, they would snore.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paunches, such as: bulge, potbelly, abdomen, fat, tummy, and belly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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