See Also: paunch(medicine)
paunch(1)(dictionary)
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paunch(dictionary)

merous (iou) and paunch(1) (iou)


merous (iou)



-merous suffix. L19.
[Extracted from DIMEROUS etc.]
Chiefly Botany. Forming adjectives in sense 'having (a specified number of) parts', as pentamerous, tetramerous. Also used with prefixed numeral, as 2-merous, five-merous.

paunch(1) (iou)



paunch noun1 & verb. LME.
[Anglo-Norman pa(u)nche, Old Northern French panche var. of Old French pance (mod. panse) from Proto-Romance, from Latin pantex, pantic- (usu. in pl.) bowels, intestines.]
A. noun.
The abdomen; the stomach; the front of the body between the waist and the groin, esp. when large or protruding. LME.
F. King His trousers, pushed out by a small, rounded paunch.
The rumen or first and largest stomach of a ruminant. Now rare exc. dial. LME.
b. An animal's entrails used as Food; tripe. LME.
c. In pl. Entrails, viscera. Now Scot. & north. M16.
b. verb.
verb trans. Stab, esp. in the paunch. Also, puncture the paunch of (an animal) to allow the escape of harmful gases. Now rare exc. dial. M16.
b. Disembowel, eviscerate, (an animal). L16.
a. verb intrans. Stuff the stomach with Food; glut. obsolete exc. Scot. M16.
b. verb trans. Swallow hastily or greedily. rare. L16.
paunched adjective paunchy; having a paunch of a specified kind: M17.
paunchiness noun the state or condition of being paunchy L19.
paunchy adjective having a large paunch L16.