to haunch
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8.5
- verb
- /hɔːntʃ/
:
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- He and Galen had always slept haunch to haunch.
Examples
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They flew from their perch on the sand table and, tearing to their haunches, began to sing along with Primer.
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Skinny-haunched Ginger McCord was half sitting on Millicent LeRoux's sturdy lap.
Fiction book (2002) -
Being together: nose to haunch and haunch to nose.
Fiction book (1999) -
Being together: nose to haunch and haunch to nose.
Fiction book (1999) -
On hands and haunches back and forth, haunch to heels.
Fiction book (1992) -
Be that as it might, the hotel bar had been lined all evening with bright-faced, trim-haunched young women - you weren't supposed to call them "girls" anymore, though if some of the ones drinking here tonight were twenty-one, he was H.P.
Fiction book (1999) -
She was a towheaded, ample-haunched thing in a cotton dress so thin and bleached from washing that a man could very nearly see the texture of her skin through its parchment-colored fabric.
Fiction book (1997) -
The dog sat on its haunches, ready to fetch the ball.
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During the game, the children crouched on their haunches, waiting for their turn.
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She rested on her haunches beside the campfire, enjoying the warmth.
Synonyms
65
1.8
To lower your body close to the ground by bending your knees and leaning forward
39
7.5
To bend your knees and lower your body close to the ground
8
6.0
Bend your knees and sit on your heels
7
4.2
To sit low to the ground as a building or object
1
4.3
To crouch down close to the ground by bending the knees
1
5.7
To lower your body close to the ground to hide or protect yourself
To bend down or squeeze into a small, tight space
Antonyms
How Low
Surface Forms
Etymology
Haunch comes from the noun haunch (Old French hanche, Latin anca) meaning 'hip', and to haunch is to sit or crouch on your haunches — that is, to rest on your hips and thighs while ready to move.