Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hunch-backed: as, “foul bunch-back'd toad,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Etymologies
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Examples
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• "Thou bottled spider, poisonous bunch-backed toad!"
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010
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• "Thou bottled spider, poisonous bunch-backed toad!"
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010
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Chad - Possibly I'm a "Logger headed bunch-backed 'Dune nerd'" and otherwise a loathably well educated renaissence fellow.
Insult Me With Shakespeare, Please Dave Hurteau 2008
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• "Thou bottled spider, poisonous bunch-backed toad!"
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010
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Now he was disconsolate by reason of what had befallen him through the Sultan, who had entreated him harshly and had married his daughter by force to the lowest of his menials and he too a lump of a groom bunch-backed withal, and he said to himself, “I will slay this daughter of mine if of her own free will she have yielded her person to this acursed carle.”
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Sultan, who had entreated him harshly and had married his daughter by force to the lowest of his menials and he too a lump of a groom bunch-backed withal, and he said to himself, "I will slay this daughter of mine if of her own free will she have yielded her person to this acursed carle."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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• "Thou bottled spider, poisonous bunch-backed toad!"
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ken Adelman 2010
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