Citations:paunch

English citations of paunch

• 1861 - "It is better to hang without being paunched..." - Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management, Chapter 23, recipe for Roast Hare, no. 1027.
• 1955 - "Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 140