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gubbmage

English translation: paunch

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Swedish term or phrase:gubbmage
English translation:paunch
Entered by: Michele Fauble

23:09 Aug 18, 2006
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / young adult novel
Swedish term or phrase: gubbmage
"'Det är sexton år sedan den bilden togs.' Det är sant. Den stolte unge pappan på bildan är inte den man som står framför mig. Ansiktet har blivit runt och plufsigt och fårat, ögonlocken tunga, ryggen kutig, och en liten ful gubbmage hänger ner över byxlinningen."
Tara Chace
United States
Local time: 08:07
paunch
Explanation:
an option

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Note added at 56 mins (2006-08-19 00:06:36 GMT)
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... geezer with a paunch for a gut, a rather bulbous nose, and greased-back hairstrands frantically trying to camouflage his oncoming ...
www.girlrobot.com/blog/2006-01.htm



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Note added at 1 hr (2006-08-19 00:10:09 GMT)
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... they go for the older guy with a paunch. ...
www.fhm.com/site/interviews/interview.asp?GID=26

... their paunch spilling out over too-tight elastic, with flabby legs on view ...
diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html

... a soon-to-be middle-aged man with thinning hair and the beginning of a paunch.
home.att.ne.jp/wave/NagoyaWrites/slick.htm

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Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 08:07
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6paunch
Michele Fauble
5 +2"pot belly"
lena blondel
4 +1spare tire
Tim Kynerd
5beer belly
Eva-Marie Adams


  

Answers


13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
"pot belly"


Explanation:
experience

lena blondel
Sweden
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tim Kynerd: Hmm. That might be better than my suggestion, but to my ear, "pot belly" conveys a larger belly than I think is meant here ("*liten* gubbmage").
3 mins
agree  Lars Palmer: No doubt the best choice hear. I was thinking beer belly but you got it.
49 mins
agree  George Hopkins: potbelly
9 hrs
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
spare tire


Explanation:
"Spare tire" is only one term, but I think it's general enough to work here. "Beer gut" carries a similar idea, but of course that corresponds to "ölmage" in Swedish and there's no suggestion of that here.

Tim Kynerd
Sweden
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks! This was a great suggestion!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kathy Saranpa: sounds more like a spare tire than a full-on belly
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Kathy!
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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
paunch


Explanation:
an option

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Note added at 56 mins (2006-08-19 00:06:36 GMT)
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... geezer with a paunch for a gut, a rather bulbous nose, and greased-back hairstrands frantically trying to camouflage his oncoming ...
www.girlrobot.com/blog/2006-01.htm



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Note added at 1 hr (2006-08-19 00:10:09 GMT)
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... they go for the older guy with a paunch. ...
www.fhm.com/site/interviews/interview.asp?GID=26

... their paunch spilling out over too-tight elastic, with flabby legs on view ...
diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html

... a soon-to-be middle-aged man with thinning hair and the beginning of a paunch.
home.att.ne.jp/wave/NagoyaWrites/slick.htm



Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 08:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anders Östberg: My first thought was pot belly but I think this is better in the context
20 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Ingrid Abramson
7 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  EKM
7 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  George Hopkins
8 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
8 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  Tim Kynerd
15 hrs
  -> thanks
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
beer belly


Explanation:
Another very common phrase is he has such a beer belly...... it is not only used in reference to someone who drinks beer but just for a little bit of a larger tummy to a lot larger tummy. Comes up a lot on google.

Eva-Marie Adams
Local time: 08:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks!

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