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Definition of Hunch

1. Verb. Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward.

2. Noun. An impression that something might be the case. "He had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

3. Noun. The act of bending yourself into a humped position.

Definition of Hunch

1. n. A hump; a protuberance.

2. v. t. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

3. 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.

Definition of Hunch

1. Noun. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. ¹

2. Noun. A theory, idea, or guess. ¹

3. Noun. A hunk (piece of something) ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean. ¹

5. Verb. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly. ¹

6. Verb. To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hunch

1. to arch forward [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hunch

humstrum humstrums humuhumu humuhumunukunukuapuaa humuhumunukunukuapuaas humulene cyclase humulin humulus humungous humus

humuses humusy humvee humvees hun hunch (current term) hunch cuddy hunch hunch forward hunch over hunchback

hunchbacked hunchbacks hunched hunches hunching hunchs hunchunite hundial hundials hundred

Literary usage of Hunch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"cried the hunch hackling, passionately. " I have promised," I falter. " One must keep one's promises, ... Oh, you are right, you are right," said the hunch- ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"hunch-backed occurs in the later quarto edd. of Shak. Rich. Ill, iv. 4. ... 'Thy crooked mind within hunch'd out thy back;' Dryden, qu. in Todd (no ..."

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