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paunchless

paunchless adjective: having no paunch.

Adjective

paunchless (not comparable)

  1. Having no paunch.
    • Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 357

Origin of paunchless

From paunch + -less.

Questions about paunchless

What does paunchless mean?
Paunchless means having no paunch.
What part of speech is paunchless?
Paunchless is an adjective.

Words near paunchless in the dictionary

  1. paunchier
  2. paunchiest
  3. paunchily
  4. paunchiness
  5. paunching
  6. paunchless
  7. paunchway
  8. paunchways
  9. paunchy
  10. paune
  11. Paunee

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