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hunchbacked

[ huhnch-bakt ]

/ ˈhʌntʃˌbækt /

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adjective

humpbacked.

Origin of hunchbacked

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

Words nearby hunchbacked

hun-tun, hunan, hunch, hunchback, hunchback of notre dame, the, hunchbacked, hund., hundred, hundred and eighty degree turn, hundred days, hundred flowers

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