hunch

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So that's where my hunch is at this point, rather than that it has been made, but we just aren't ready to announce it.

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  1. noun An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose.
  2. noun A hump.
  3. noun A lump or chunk: "She . . . cut herself another hunch of bread” (Virginia Woolf).
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  • Anyway, you think the laird was a blackmailer Well, I mentioned a while ago that I had what you call a hunch. —  My Bones Will Keep - Gladys Mitchell- Bradley 35
  • If the culmination of an acute reasoning power plus a minute memory of events can be called a hunch, such a conclusion might conceivably be correct. —  103 - The Mindless Monsters
  • There is this thing called a hunch - remind me to listen to it more often. —  Whudat • The Latest Black Celebrity News and Views sprinkled with flavors
  • My hunch is the guild doesn't much respect his penchant for improvisation as opposed to proper screenwriting, even if the Academy's writing branch has allowed for it in recent years. —  In Contention
  • But my hunch is that it holds true for a majority of 'liberals'. —  Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Not found in early records; an assibilated form of hunk, q. v.
  2. from hunch, n. In def. 2, prob. due in part to haunch, v.
 

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