EGAVE

hunch

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A hump; a protuberance.
  2. noun A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
    The old man walked with a hunch.
  3. noun A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
    I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.
  4. noun A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
    a hunch of bread
  5. noun A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
  6. verb To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
    Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.
  7. verb To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
    They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.
  8. verb To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.

Similar words

hump hunch over intuition suspicion hunch forward bump glimmer flavour trail feeling

Often followed by

that is was of about and or over he

Word family

hunched hunches hunching

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