hunch
3
5.3
- noun
- /hʌntʃ/
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encorvamiento
- The world rushed back to surround us the way a high wave rolls onto a dry beach: shoulders lost their hunch, mouths loosened into smiles, children whistled, babies cried, dogs barked, and the long grass bent in the sea wind.
- a slight hunch
- hunch of her back
- hunch forward
Examples
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You're going to get a back hunch.
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Platonov had the forward hunch of a chess player.
Fiction book (1992) -
I've got a hunch on my back.
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He says I shall have a hunch on my back and be barely able to move, just like my father.
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Unfortunately, the hunch on my back was a one-way ticket to Igor School.
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I tuck my shivering hands deep into my pockets and hunch under a massive banyan tree, keeping warm until the sun spills its first golden light onto the lake and surrounding hills.
Academic text (2003) -
He then flips his mask down over his face with his cigarette between his lips and hunches over a weld.
Fiction book (1998) -
The two staring men form an odd, motionless tableau: the slight, bespectacled man seated; the big man standing in a hunch with his hands on his thighs; their heads close together.
Fiction book (1991) -
After carrying the heavy boxes, he felt a hunch in his back from bending over.
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The old woman walked with a noticeable hunch, as if carrying the weight of the world.
Synonyms
2
4.8
A forward bend of the upper body often from age or habit
Antonyms
Idioms
How Bent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hunch meaning the posture comes from an old word for a hump, as in hunchback, so it names the rounded, stooped shape of the back. That's why a 'hunch' can mean the curved position of your body.