hunchback
[huhnch-bak]
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noun
a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature.Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
Origin of hunchback
First recorded in 1705–15; back formation from hunchbacked
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Contemporary Examples of hunchback
He was described by Shakespeare as having a hunchback and indeed the skeleton shows evidence of curvature of the spine.
CONFIRMED: Skeleton Found Under City Car Park IS That Of Villainous Richard IIITom Sykes
February 4, 2013
Historical Examples of hunchback
As for the hunchback, he was broken on the wheel, being condemned on his own confession.'
StoryologyBenjamin Taylor
When he took the bolt from the hole, it was deformed, its head being askew like a hunchback's.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
Logre, the hunchback, you know, put one of the pieces over his shoulder.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
Hunchback figures with the tanks mounted on their shoulders.
I had seen him kneeling on the ground with his head pinned down by the hunchback.
RomanceJoseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
hunchback
noun
Also called: humpback
Compare kyphosis, hollow-back
Word Origin for hunchback
C18: from earlier hunchbacked, huckbacked humpbacked, influenced by bunchbacked, from bunch (in obsolete sense of hump) + backed
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