Word Meanings - PAUNCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pot-bellied. Dickens.

Related words: (words related to PAUNCHY)

• BELLING
  A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson.
• BELLIC; BELLICAL
  Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.
• BELLICOUS
  Bellicose.
• BELLIPOTENT
  Mighty in war; armipotent. Blount.
• BELLIBONE
  A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. Spenser.
• BELLIGERENTLY
  In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
• BELLIED
  , a. Having a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• BELLIGERENCE; BELLIGERENCY
  The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
• BELLICOSELY
  In a bellicose manner.
• BELLICOSE
  Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. W. Irving.
• BELLIGERENT
  1. Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett. 2. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
• SABELLIANISM
  The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
• CORBELING; CORBELLING
  Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.
• KOBELLITE
  A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• FLABELLIFORM
  Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
• SABELLIAN
  Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
• UMBELLIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid. Umbellic acid. Anisic acid. A yellow powder obtained from umbelliferone.
• REBELLION
  Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
• ISABELLINE
  Of an isabel or isabella color.
• DISEMBELLISH
  To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
• COBELLIGERENT
  Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.
• TABELLION
  A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.
• SWAG-BELLIED
  Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.
• IMBELLIC
  Not warlike or martial. R. Junius.