He exercised every day to avoid becomingpaunchy in his old age.
1958, John M. Kays,Basic animal husbandry, page269:
A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty,paunchy, heavy-middled hog.
1976, Robert Herrick,Waste, Ayer Publishing, page55:
"They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat,paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"
2002 December 15, Debra Galant, “JERSEY; She Loved Him, She Loved Him Not, She Loves Him”, inThe New York Times[1]:
"I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a littlepaunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality."
2018 October 7, Andrew R. Chow, “There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote on Your Favorite”, inThe New York Times[2]:
The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’spaunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.
