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hunch·back

(hŭnch′băk′)

1. An individual whose back is hunched due to abnormal convex curvature of the upper spine. Also called humpback.

2. An abnormally curved or hunched back.

3. Kyphosis.

hunch′backed′ adj.

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hunchback

(ˈhʌntʃˌbæk)

1. (Pathology) a person having an abnormal convex curvature of the thoracic spine

2. (Pathology) such a curvature

Also called: humpback

[C18: from earlier hunchbacked, huckbacked humpbacked, influenced by bunchbacked, from bunch (in obsolete sense of hump) + backed]

ˈhunchˌbacked adj

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hunch•back

(ˈhʌntʃˌbæk)

n.

1. a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of spinal curvature.

2. humpback (def. 1).

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Noun	1.	hunchback - an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column humpback, kyphosis spinal curvature - an abnormal curvature of the vertebral column
	2.	hunchback - a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine crookback, humpback

hunchback

noun humpback, Quasimodo, crookback (rare), crouch-back (archaic) playing a hunchback in the dark classical epic Jean de Florette

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Translations

شَخْص أحْدَب

hrbáč

pukkelryg

Buckelige

καμπούρα

koukkuselkäkyttyrä

krypplingur

hunchback

[ˈhʌntʃbæk] N → jorobado/a m/f

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hunchback

[ˈhʌntʃbæk] n → bossu(e) m/f

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hunchback

[ˈhʌntʃˌbæk] n (offensive) → gobbo/a

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hunch

(hantʃ) noun

an idea or belief based on one's feelings or suspicions rather than on clear evidence. I have a hunch he'll be late.

ˈhunchback noun

a person with a hump on his back.

ˈhunchbacked adjective

having a hump on one's back.

hunched up

with one's back and shoulders bent forward. He sat hunched up near the fire.

hunch·back

n. corcova, joroba, deformación con curvatura de la espina dorsal.

hunchback

n (vulg) jorobado -da mf (fam or vulg); (hump) joroba

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One day, when the tailor was hard at work, a little hunchback came and sat at the entrance of the shop, and began to sing and play his tambourine.

But unluckily, the hunchback happened to swallow a large bone, and, in spite of all the tailor and his wife could do to help him, died of suffocation in an instant.

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When Zarathustra went one day over the great bridge, then did the cripples and beggars surround him, and a hunchback spake thus unto him:

Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit--so do the people teach.

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"She did not like the look of the house at all," the peasant was saying as the two newcomers took their places where they could overhear him; "but the poor little hunchback was so tired out with carrying her bundle of hemp to market, that she went in; besides, the night had come, and she could go no further.

it is all right, she is asleep,' says the short ruffian, when he saw that the hunchback had not stirred.

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He's a hunchback, and he's horrid." "I don't believe you," said Mary; and she turned her back and stuck her fingers in her ears, because she would not listen any more.

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This hunchback must not suppose that his acquaintance with fighting stories put him on a par with an actual fighting hero, like Tom Tulliver.

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Rostov went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.

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The second day she began with all the comical names she could hear of, BANDY-LEGS, HUNCHBACK, CROOK-SHANKS, and so on; but the little gentleman still said to every one of them, 'Madam, that is not my name.'

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'What do you want, then?' demanded the hunchback. 'Will you take yourself off, before I do you a mischief?

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'About the Fairies, sir, and the Dwarf, and the Hunchback, and the Genies,' she sobbed out; 'and about - '