hunchback

[ huhnch-bak ]

/ ˈhʌntʃˌbæk /

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

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 III |Tom Sykes |February 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The words bosse and bossu (hunch and hunchback) have various idiomatic and proverbial applications in France.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 |Various
It is from that gentleman, the hunchback, you remember, that you once met here.

Pride |Eugne Sue
The hunchback snarled his rebuke in Blaine's face and turned to Tom.

The Copper-Clad World |Harl Vincent

His face seemed as though it belonged to a hunchback whose hunch was inside of him.

Ursula |Honore de Balzac
The horses were submissive enough while the hunchback removed and changed their saddles.

Frank Merriwell's Triumph |Burt L. Standish

hunchback

/ (ˈhʌntʃˌbæk) /

a person having an abnormal convex curvature of the thoracic spine

such a curvature

Also called: humpback

Compare kyphosis, hollow-back

hunchbacked, adjective

C18: from earlier hunchbacked, huckbacked humpbacked, influenced by bunchbacked, from bunch (in obsolete sense of hump) + backed