humpbacked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of humpbacked
1675–85; blend of huckbacked ( huck haunch + backed ) and crumpbacked ( Old English crump crooked + backed )
Example Sentences
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It is awesome to witness an enormous reptile with a huge, humpbacked shell and enormously thick legs glomp slowly forward, with majestic indifference to the gawkers by the trail, myself included.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
On a recent Friday afternoon, hundreds of visitors in soccer uniforms or draped in flags waited for their turn to mount the humpbacked animals.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
Neither the humpbacked 747 nor the cherry-red public buses that crisscross London surpass the Big Mac as the world’s most famous double-decker.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2016
On one wall of Roy’s bedroom was a poster from the Livingston rodeo that showed a cowboy riding a ferocious humpbacked bull.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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