Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a crooked back; hunched.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a humped back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
hump on theback , either naturally or due to a medical condition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
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Examples
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He never remembered having seen the softy, but he had always heard him described as a humpbacked man.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863
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After that the car in the people began to name "humpbacked"
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After that the car in the people began to name "humpbacked"
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Along the way you cross an old humpbacked bridge, the babbling brook below it a tributary of the River Avon.
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A downhill stretch now leads you to a cluster of old cottages huddled around a humpbacked bridge.
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Camel trekking is an activity that matches man with a foul-tempered, humpbacked beast that sinisterly hisses and cavalierly drops to its haunches when it no longer feels compelled to carry you.
Dunes Struck 2011
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I put down the pen and went to the window and looked out onto the dusty street, unpaved and full of potholes, and at all the humpbacked houses.
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"When I saw the references to the humpbacked sculptor at Notre Dame, and saw that the dates matched the time of Hugo's interest in the Cathedral, the hairs on the back of my neck rose and I thought I should look into it," Glew told The Telegraph.
Notre Dame's 'Real' Hunchback Uncovered By U.K. Archivist 2010
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She worked with the record keeper, Sidiq, a hunched-over, humpbacked young man who spoke excellent English in the whiniest voice Elsa had ever heard.
Lipstick in Afghanistan Roberta Gately 2010
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She was humpbacked and seemed to be missing several teeth.
The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010
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