different between paunce vs paunch

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. (obsolete) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.

Related terms

• paunch

Etymology 2

See pansy.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. Obsolete form of pansy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]

Anagrams

• uncape

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pawnce, pauns, pauncs

Etymology

From Old French pance, from Latin panticem, accusative of pantex. Doublet of paunche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pau?ns(?)/, /?pans(?)/

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. paunce (piece of armour)

Descendants

• English: paunce

References

• “paunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

From Middle English paunche, from Old Northern French panche, Old French pance (French panse), from Latin pantex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??nt?/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /p??nt?/
• Rhymes: -??nt?, -??nt?

Noun

paunch (plural paunches)

1. The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
2. The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
3. The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.

4. (nautical) A paunch mat.
5. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.

Synonyms

• (protruding belly): See also Thesaurus:paunch.

Related terms

• paunce
• paunchy

Translations

Verb

paunch (third-person singular simple present paunches, present participle paunching, simple past and past participle paunched)

1. To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2

     (Caliban)

     Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him

     I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him,

     Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log

     Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,

     Or cut his wezand with thy knife

Translations

Middle English

Noun

paunch

1. Alternative form of paunche