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paunchy

English

Etymology

paunch +? -y.

Adjective

paunchy (comparative paunchier, superlative paunchiest)

  1. Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.
    He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.
    • 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry (page 269)
      A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

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swollen

English

Etymology

From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ?eswollen, from Old English swollen, ?eswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellan? (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sw??l?n/
  • Rhymes: -??l?n

Adjective

swollen (comparative more swollen, superlative most swollen)

  1. protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

Translations

Verb

swollen

  1. past participle of swell

See also

  • swole

Anagrams

  • Nowells, nowells

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