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hunchbacked

[ huhnch-bakt ]

/ ˈhʌntʃˌbækt /

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adjective

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Origin of hunchbacked

1590–1600; blend of huckbacked see (humpbacked) and bunchbacked

Words nearby hunchbacked

Hun, Húna Bay, Hunan, hunch, hunchback, hunchbacked, hund., hundred, hundred and eighty degree turn, Hundred Days, Hundred Flowers

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Example sentences from the Web for hunchbacked

Playing the hunchbacked Igor—pronounced “Eye-gore”—Marty is clearly having a ball.
Marty Feldman: Dead Cool|Simon Doonan|November 2, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Hunchbacked and broken, crooked though they be, Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry|Charles Baudelaire
Do you chance to know of a small, hunchbacked Mexican who is more or less in this section of the country, Senor?
Frontier Boys on the Coast|Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
One was called Bulag, because he was blind; and the other, Cuba, because he was hunchbacked.
Filipino Popular Tales|Dean S. Fansler

"You'd better stand away from Mr. Punch," said the hunchbacked man, without moving.
The Old Tobacco Shop|William Bowen
Arent you afraid youll be hunchbacked carrying both those bales of goods?
The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass|Allen Chapman

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