hunchedadj.
/hʌnʃt/ Having or bowed into a hump; humpbacked; figurative apt to ‘set one's back up’, ‘stuck-up’. Also with adverbs.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back
hoveredc897
embossedc1430
bow-backed1470
crook-backed1477
courbe-backed1480
bunch-backed1519
hunchbacked1598
buncht-back1603
crouch-backed1606
hulch1611
hulch-backed1611
hulched1611
crouchback1627
camel-backed1631
huck-backed1631
hulchy1632
boss-backed1640
gibbous1646
huckle-backeda1652
hulck-backed1656
hunched1656
crump-backeda1661
humpbacked1681
humped1713
humpback1726
humptya1825
hunchy1841
bible-backed1857
crooked-backed1866
cyphotic1889
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]
taunt?a1534
cocket1537
fastuous?1591
cobbing1599
whalebone1602
airy1606
fastigious1625
flatuous1630
high and mighty1633
vapouring1647
flatulent1658
hoity-toity1690
jackanapish1696
superior1711
penseful1788
uppish1789
pensy1790
stuck-up1812
glorified1821
toploftical1823
pretentious1832
sophomoric1837
highty-tighty1847
snippy1848
jumped-up1852
set-up1856
toplofty1859
cock-aloft1861
high-tone1864
high-toned1866
pretensivea1868
fancy-pants1870
hunched1870
snotty1870
head-in-air1880
uppity1880
jackanapsian1881
airified1882
sidey1898
posh1914
upstage1918
snooty1919
high-hatted1924
hincty1924
snot-nosed1941
posho1989
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of bending > [adjective] > in a hunch
hunched1910
1656 Choice Drolleries 51 I love thee for thy huncht back, 'Tis bow'd although not broken.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 213 A very singular variety of perch: the back is quite hunched.
a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 141 Imitating a drunken man, or a clown, or a person with a hunched back.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 227 If a man were halt or hunch'd, in him..Scorn was allow'd as part of his defect.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 146 They do say..that they're strange, and huncht, and proud.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. iii. 24 He was hunched, as if with age or weakness.
1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars x. 144 His little hunched-up friend.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 110/1 A long..sinuous beast that hopped in a series of hunched-up bounds.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three xxi. 267 He..clawed himself into a saddle..and rode for safety, hunched over and but half conscious.
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