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hunched, a.|hʌnʃt|
Also huncht.
[f. hunch n. or v. + -ed.]
Having or bowed into a hump; hump-backed; fig. apt to ‘set one's back up’, ‘stuck-up’. Also with advbs.
1656Choice Drolleries 51, I love thee for thy huncht back, 'Tis bow'd although not broken. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 213 A very singular variety of perch: the back is quite hunched. 1804–6Syd. Smith Elem. Sk. Mor. Philos. (1850) 141 Imitating a drunken man, or a clown, or a person with a hunched back. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 41 If a man were halt or hunch'd, in him..Scorn was allow'd as part of his defect. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. I. 146 They do say..that they're strange, and huncht, and proud. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. i. iii, He was hunched, as if with age or weakness. 1910W. de la Mare Three Mulla-Mulgars x. 144 His little hunched-up friend. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. 110/1 A long..sinuous beast that hopped in a series of hunched-up bounds. 1921C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three xxi. 267 He..clawed himself into a saddle..and rode for safety, hunched over and but half conscious. |