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  • as infat
  • as inobese

synonyms for paunchy

  • big
  • bulging
  • bulky
  • chunky
  • heavy
  • hefty
  • inflated
  • large
  • meaty
  • obese
  • plump
  • well-fed
  • blimp
  • bovine
  • broad
  • bull
  • butterball
  • distended
  • gross
  • husky
  • lard
  • roly-poly
  • solid
  • stout
  • swollen
  • beefy
  • brawny
  • burly
  • corpulent
  • dumpy
  • elephantine
  • fleshy
  • gargantuan
  • heavyset
  • jelly-belly
  • oversize
  • plumpish
  • ponderous
  • porcine
  • portly
  • potbellied
  • pudgy
  • rotund
  • thickset
  • weighty
  • whalelike
See also synonyms for: paunchiness
On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paunchy, such as: big, bulging, bulky, chunky, heavy, and hefty.

antonyms for paunchy

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  • skinny
  • slight
  • thin
  • lean
  • slender
  • slim
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How to use paunchy in a sentence

One of his captors was the paunchy man, and his hands were heavy and his fingers gripped viciously.
THE LANDLOPERHOLMAN DAY
A paunchy boss with underset jaw and overhanging upper lip was profanely urging his helpers back to their jobs.
THE LANDLOPERHOLMAN DAY
His pantaloons were short, his figure was paunchy, authoritative and German.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOL. 12, NO. 32, NOVEMBER, 1873VARIOUS
I was ashamed of sponging on Paunchy, and could not bring myself to come back to the saloon where he would willingly have fed me.
SHANDYGAFFCHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It was by mere exaggeration of certain not uncommon features that the figure of this paunchy dwarf was arrived at.
A HISTORY OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT, VOL. II (OF 2)GEORGES PERROT
Somewhere in his paunchy little body he kept a perpetual bill of fare, checked off or unchecked.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 13, NO. 75, JANUARY, 1864VARIOUS
In the center the mound swelled to resemble a paunchy trunk with sagging shoulders.
THE PLANETOID OF PERILPAUL ERNST
A paunchy, bowlegged figure, topped by a white Texas sombrero, was coming straight toward them.
TOM SWIFT AND THE VISITOR FROM PLANET XVICTOR APPLETON
Should a paunchy waddler of this sort wreck at once his pride and his car?
AN IDYLL OF ALL FOOLS' DAYJOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON
They were mostly paunchy men who talked of contracts and profits.
THE SWORD OF ANTIETAMJOSEPH A. ALTSHELER
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