different between paunchy vs chunky

English

Etymology

paunch +? -y.

Adjective

paunchy (comparative paunchier, superlative paunchiest)

1. Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.

   He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.

   • 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry (page 269)

     A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ki/
• Rhymes: -??ki

Etymology 1

chunk +? -y

Adjective

chunky (comparative chunkier or more chunky, superlative chunkiest or most chunky)

1. Having chunks.

   I ate a chunky bar of chocolate.

   • 2012, Giuliano Hazan, Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes, Open Road Media (?ISBN)

     They are traditionally served with meat sauces, but are also good with chunky vegetable sauces.
2. (euphemistic, of a person) Fat.

   I prefer chunky blonde girls to skinny brunettes.

   • 2009, Dan Elconin, Never After, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 112:

     “Nigel used to be chunky, huh?” “I was not chunky,” Nigel said testily. “I was just... hefty .

   • 2011, Broxin Delano, Black Sparrow, BalboaPress (?ISBN), page 19:

     In sixth grade I was first propositioned by a chunky girl named Tijuana Downs. She called me on the telephone one evening and asked me if I would like to be her boyfriend.

3. Of a cat: having a large, solid bodyline.

   The British Shorthair has a distinctively chunky body, dense coat and broad face.

Synonyms

• (overweight): portly, rotund, obese, husky

Translations

Etymology 2

See chunkey.

Noun

chunky (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of chunkey (Native American game).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chunky.