hunchbacked

[huhnch-bakt]

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adjective

humpbacked.

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Origin of hunchbacked

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

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Examples from the Web for hunchbacked

Contemporary Examples

Playing the hunchbacked Igor—pronounced “Eye-gore”—Marty is clearly having a ball.
Marty Feldman: Dead Cool
Simon Doonan
November 2, 2009

Historical Examples

She is little, and somewhat on one side, but she is not hunchbacked.
The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete
Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
A porter, hunchbacked and with long arms, stood at the door.
The Children of Odin
Padraic Colum
I got the tale from a hunchbacked half-breed and he got it from his grandmother.
The Fifth Ace
Douglas Grant
I know where she and that hunchbacked kid were living two days ago.
The Fifth Ace
Douglas Grant
It was a hunchbacked man with a wooden peg leg and a crutch.
Mr. Wicker's Window
Carley Dawson