push out or up to create a hump, arch in a convex manner; bend down, crouch, stoop down; shove, push
hump; protuberance; thick piece; protrusion; push, thrust; feeling, premonition, intuition, gut feeling
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Hunch Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
(v. t.)
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
(n.)
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
(n.)
A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
(n.)
A hump; a protuberance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA hump; a protuberance.
hunch
\hunch\, n. 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. [colloq. or slang]
hunch
\hunch\ (?), n. [perh. akin to huckle; cf. hump, hunch, bunch, hunk.]
1. a hump; a protuberance.
2. a lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
3. a push or thrust, as with the elbow.
hunch
\hunch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. hunched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. hunching.] 1. to push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
2. to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
similar words(2)
hunch forward
hunch over
Crwb = n. a round hunch
Hwrwg = n. a lump, a hunch
Noun
1. an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"
(synonym) intuition, suspicion
(hypernym) impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion
(hyponym) heart, bosom
2. the act of bending yourself up together
(hypernym) bending
(derivation) hump, hunch forward, hunch over
Verb
1. arch one's back
(synonym) hump, hunch forward, hunch over
(hypernym) change posture
(entail) bend, flex
Hunch Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Hunch may refer to:
- Hunch (website), a collective intelligence decision making system
- Hunch, an intuitive reckoning
- Hunch, a forward bend in one's body, such as that from a crushed vertebra
- Hunch, a parody of Derryn Hinch played by Steve Vizard on Australian television show Fast Forward
- Hunch, a dance attributed to Hasil Adkins
- The Hunch Backs, a mountain in Hong Kong
- , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
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