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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose.
  2. n. A hump.
  3. n. A lump or chunk: "She . . . cut herself another hunch of bread” ( Virginia Woolf).
  4. n. A push or shove.
  5. v. To bend or draw up into a hump: I hunched my shoulders against the wind.
  6. v. To push or shove.
  7. v. To assume a crouched or cramped posture: The cat hunched in a corner.
  8. v. To thrust oneself forward.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A hump; a protuberance: as, the hunch of a camel.
  2. n. A thick piece; a hunk; a lump: as, a hunch of cheese.
  3. n. A push or jog with the fist or elbow, or by a cow with the horn.
  4. To round or thrust out or up in a protuberance; crook, as the back.
  5. To push or thrust with the elbow or (as a cow) with the horn; jog; hook.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
  2. n. A theory, idea, or guess.
  3. n. A hunk (piece of something)
  4. v. intransitive To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.
  5. v. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
  6. v. To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A hump; a protuberance.
  2. n. A lump; a thick piece.
  3. n. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
  4. n. Colloq. or Slang A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; -- said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.
  5. v. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
  6. v. To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an impression that something might be the case
  2. v. round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
  3. n. the act of bending yourself into a humped position

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. hump
  1. protuberance
  1. lump
  1. arch

hypernyms (2)

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  1. change posture
  1. bending

same context (5)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. guess
  1. premonition
  1. intuition
  1. surmise
  1. presentiment

rhymes (10)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bunche
  2. Munch
  1. Punch
  2. brunch
  1. bunch
  2. crunch
  1. lunch
  2. munch
  1. punch
  2. scrunch

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hulch
  2. hump
  3. hunchback
  1. hunk
  2. bunch
  3. bunch-backed
  1. croup
  2. sneaking
  3. scrunch
  1. scrooch
  2. Pincus
  3. hunch
  1. gregory goodwin pincus
  2. gregory pincus
  3. boss
  1. bunchy
  2. gibbous
  3. hunchakist

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