Hunchback Definition

hŭnchbăk
noun

Humpback.

Webster's New World
An individual whose back is hunched due to abnormal convex curvature of the upper spine.
American Heritage Medicine
A person having a humped back.
Webster's New World
Kyphosis.
American Heritage Medicine

One who is stooped or hunched over.

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Singular:
hunchback
Plural:
hunchbacks

Origin of Hunchback

Hunchback Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Victor Hugo also wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

  • His mother was Ida d'Ardenne, sister of the fourth Godfrey ("the Hunchback"),.

  • Charles had previously contracted a union, probably of an irregular nature, with a Frankish lady named Himiltrude, who had borne him a son Pippin, the " Hunchback."

  • I don't want to screw around and play against the big leagues in Philadelphia; all your friends with the crazy middle names like, 'The Shiv' and 'The Hunchback' and 'Three Fingers'—really neat nicknames like that.

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Words Starting With

HHUHUN

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KCKACK

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