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Hunched   /həntʃt/   Listen
verb
Hunch  v. t.  (past & past part. hunched; pres. part. hunching)  
1.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
2.
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.


adjective
hunched  adj.  Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; of people.
Synonyms: round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked.





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"Hunched" Quotes from Famous Books



... the night pleasantly in a noisy game of high-low-jack, and the next morning slept more soundly than he had slept for weeks, hunched upon a wooden bench in the boxlike station of a North Carolina junction. The express would have brought him to Jacksonville in twenty-four hours; the journey, as he took it, boarding any local that happened to be going south, and leaving it for meals or sometimes for sleep or often as ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... The man was hunched up, slouching, his legs crossed, his elbows seeking support against his body; he held his clumsily folded paper close to his eyes. He had the appearance of being very myopic, but he did ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford
... Johnny hunched over the wheel and peered through the thickening pall of smoke and dust, reluctant to ease off his breakneck speed but knowing that they had to find Hetty—if she were alive. Neither man had said a word since the wagon raced from the ...
— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael
... roared Mortimer, rolling about in his bed and kicking the slippers from his fat feet. Then, remembering that he was supposed to be suffering silently in his room, he hunched up to a sitting posture and regarded his ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... hunched the duke private—I see him do it—and then he looked around and see the coffin, over in the corner on two chairs; so then him and the duke, with a hand across each other's shoulder, and t'other hand to their eyes, walked ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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