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hunchback, hunch-back [f. hunch n. + back n.] 1. |ˈhʌnʃˈbæk| A hunched back.
1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft 248 A Man with a Hunch-back higher than his Head. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iii, One Lautrec, a man with hunchback, or natural deformity. 2. |ˈhʌnʃbæk| = humpback n. 2.
1712tr. Arab. Nts. cxxiii. (ed. 2) IV. 35 The Story of the little Hunch-back. 1818B. O'Reilly Greenland 186 A hunch-back..about fourteen years of age. 1870L'Estrange Miss Mitford I. vii. 240 The only bearable hunch⁓back of my acquaintance is Richard the Third. 3. attrib. Hump-backed.
1850W. B. Clarke Wreck Favorite 181 The hump-back or hunch-back whale..with a larger hump than the sperm whale. |