humpy
1 Americannoun
plural
humpiesnoun
plural
humpiesadjective
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full of humps
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informal angry or gloomy
noun
Other Word Forms
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
Example Sentences
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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
The 24-year-old Frankenthaler painted it after a trip to Nova Scotia, whose coast is plainly visible in it: the pine-forested mountains and humpy boulders, the dramatic horizontal blue.
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
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