girth

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"While the matter of her girth was an intense and ongoing saga for her - a daily drama of doughnuts nobly forsworn and later feverishly salvaged from the garbage; of nonfat yogurt lunches canceled out by furtive french-fry snacks; of painfully tiny losses and appallingly sudden gains - for most people, she could see, her weight did not register as any sort of narrative at all."

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  1. noun The distance around something; the circumference.
  2. noun Size; bulk: a person of large girth.
  3. noun A strap encircling an animal's body in order to secure a load or saddle on its back; a cinch.

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  • The anti-girth, pro-Earth eating plan for busy, real people. —  Reader's Digest
  • Are you familiar with that word? didn't think so ... big dicks and girth are all foreign to you unless you are being someone's personal prison bitch! lol newestblobber - 3 / 27 / 2009 9: 29: 15 AM
  • "While the matter of her girth was an intense and ongoing saga for her - a daily drama of doughnuts nobly forsworn and later feverishly salvaged from the garbage; of nonfat yogurt lunches canceled out by furtive french-fry snacks; of painfully tiny losses and appallingly sudden gains - for most people, she could see, her weight did not register as any sort of narrative at all." —  680news.com
  • "Shankman's movies make a shitload, and often stink like one, but somewhere along the way, he must have picked something up (maybe in choreographing truly great modern films like Stuck on You), because this new candy-colored version of John Waters's affectionate ode to the music of Baltimore in the 1960s and embracing your girth is the kind of movie tuner that we've been promised for years now," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • And with the benefit of that run under his girth, the cobwebs blown away, Nicholls 'charge can start re-imbursing connections his pricetag with a win here. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
 

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  1. Middle English gerth, girth strap, from Old Norse gjördh, girdle; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scots also gird and girr, English dial. garth (see these forms); from Middle English girth, gerth, from Icelandic gjördh, a girdle, girth, = Swedish Danish gjord, a girth, = Gothic (Moesogothic) gairda, a girdle: see gird, girdle.
  2. from girth, n.
 

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