Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having haunches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having haunches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Fitted with
haunches (squat vertical support structures).
Etymologies
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Examples
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"A warm shock of heat of mustard haunched on Mr. Bloom's heart."
Ellen Kanner: Bloomsday: Celebrate James Joyce With A Meatless Recipe 2010
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In the decades since Slim Pickens launched and then haunched a nuclear warhead into Kubrick's Armageddon, an even stranger thing has been happening to our nuclear debate.
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You know, I mean, would it be better if I hid my head down and tried to hide my face and haunched over and had tears in my eyes?
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Then he got out, walked around the car, inspecting it for this and that, and went back to the stoop in front of his building, where he sat haunched on the iron rail smoking one last cigarette before he went upstairs.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Nick sat haunched on the iron rail just above Juju.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Then he got out, walked around the car, inspecting it for this and that, and went back to the stoop in front of his building, where he sat haunched on the iron rail smoking one last cigarette before he went upstairs.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Nick sat haunched on the iron rail just above Juju.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The lilim or Children of Lilith were ass-haunched, for they were spirits left over from the real source of the Jewish ass-cult: Egypt, home of the ass-headed god Set, or Seth.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Nick sat haunched on the iron rail just above Juju.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Then he got out, walked around the car, inspecting it for this and that, and went back to the stoop in front of his building, where he sat haunched on the iron rail smoking one last cigarette before he went upstairs.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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