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▪ I. humpy, n.1 Austral.|ˈhʌmpɪ|
Also humpey, humpie.
[ad. native Austral. oompi, to which ‘has been given an English look, the appearance of the huts [of the aborigines] suggesting the English word hump’ (Morris, Austral Eng.).]
A native Australian hut. Hence, applied to a very small and primitive house, or hut such as is put up by a settler.
[1846C. P. Hodgson Remin. Australia 228 (Morris) A ‘gunyia’ or ‘umpee’.] 1873J. B. Stephens Black Gin 16 Lo, by the ‘humpy’ door, a smockless Venus! 1877Rep. Secretary Pub. Instruct. Queensland for 1876. 64 The school building [at Mount Brisbane] is a slab humpy. 1890Boldrewood Squatter's Dream xx. 247 He's in bed in the humpy. 1911Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 591/2, I knew where this humpie was. 1927M. Terry Through Land of Promise xiii. 161 The manager's house..had been a small humpie consisting of four stone walls capped by a tin roof. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country viii. 130 They are big tents or humpeys of bark, with flags on top to show if they are English or Russian or some other nation. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby i. 14 The old fossicker was..seated outside a bark humpy. 1953‘N. Shute’ In Wet x. 348 His camp consisted of a tent for himself and his wife, and a humpy shelter made of gum tree boughs for his white ringer, Phil Fleming. 1969Australian 7 June 16/1 There's a drawing in Petty's Australia Fair that shows an Aboriginal urchin in front of his family's humpy in the carcass of a Holden. 1971World Archaeol. III. 168 Structures (termed ‘humpies’ by Europeans) which are the year-round type of dwelling used by mission-dwelling Aborigines.
▪ II. humpy, n.2 Austral. slang.|ˈhʌmpɪ|
Also humpie.
[f. hump n. 1 + -y6.]
A camel.
1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia i. 19 There's a spare riding camel in my outfit you can have... Only you'll have to rough it..rough it hard, too..same as me. But the humpie's there if you want it. Ibid. iii. 29 He is the despised ‘humpie’, the ‘filthy camel’. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. 214 A camel is an oont or a humpy.
▪ III. humpy, a.|ˈhʌmpɪ|
[f. hump n. + -y.]
a. Having or characterized by humps; marked by protuberances; humped; hump-like.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. iv. (1737) 12 This Isle Bossart (or Humpy Island). 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 207 Your genius is humpy, decrepid, and hagged. 1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abridged ed.) I. Foreword 8 The bellowing of the humpy herds. 1888Co-operat. News 4 Aug. 783 As the cars ascend and descend the humpy road. 1895W. R. W. Stephens Life Freeman I. 249 Round humpy hills rising abruptly out of it.
b. Out of humour; melancholy, sad. Cf. hump n. 3.
1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 10 Harris said he thought it would be humpy. He said he knew the sort of place I meant; where everybody went to bed at eight o'clock, and you..had to walk ten miles to get your baccy. 1911‘Ian Hay’ Safety Match xii. 194, I have got into the way of bringing you my little troubles, and turning to you generally if I felt dismal or humpy. 1920Glasgow Herald 29 July 4, I mention these facts so that readers may be reassured if they are inclined to be ‘humpy’... Many among us..are never so happy as when they are making themselves miserable by looking at the black side of things. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb I. 71 He had found himself tired and wounded and humpy and alone after a day's hunting.
Hence ˈhumpiness, humpy condition.
1888in Chicago Advance 16 Aug., Its back presented the odd look of ‘humpiness’ or ‘a row of lumps’ along its length. 1896Daily News 12 June 5/1 Sleeves which, for humpiness and volume, excel even modern absurdity. |