humpy
1 Americannoun
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humpies
plural
noun
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humpies
plural
adjective
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full of humps
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informal angry or gloomy
noun
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Etymology
Origin of humpy1
First recorded in 1700–10; hump + -y 1
Origin of humpy2
First recorded in 1840–50; from Tharapal (an Australian Aboriginal language spoken between Moreton Bay and Wide Bay, southern Queensland), recorded as umpī (with an intrusive h )
Origin of humpy3
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It was a Fowler’s toad, Anaxyrus fowleri, one of those humpy little spotted guys who live up and down the East Coast.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
It’s tiny, and looks like a bur, a bristling seed pod, almost angrily sprouting trees and brush from its humpy back.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2015
Even this far in, the bird has found a blue toothbrush and bits of turquoise plastic to frame its humpy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2010
In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Cherangani Hills appeared in the distance, a line of mountains on the edge of the Rift, humpy and green, crushed under an indwelling sweep of rain clouds.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Also known as humpies or humpback salmon, these fish only return from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in odd-numbered years.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Dodson said they’re starting by marking 10 percent of the humpies, to fully test the procedure but the practice may expand.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
Bears wandered out of the woods down to the beach, plucked humpies from the water, and retreated.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
Pink salmon, dude; humpies, coming home to Puget Sound and the Fraser River like November rain.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2013
There was no concrete in 87any part of the line, very few iron girders and not many iron "humpies" or "elephant backs" to make the roofs of dugouts.
From The Old Front Line by John Masefield
The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
He criticised it as the humpiest funeral he had ever known; for a time he had serious thoughts of changing his profession.
From Tommy and Co. by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
One would actually think," I cried, and raised my eyes to heaven, "that sitting on the very humpiest kind of iron spikes was my favorite form of recreation!
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
With this obligation so cheerfully canceled, the exploration of the humpiest express package loomed definitely as the next task on the horizon.
From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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