Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hunched or crooked back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a humped back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having an abnormally
curved orhunched back
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
Etymologies
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Examples
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He's doing some kind of hunchbacked moonwalk or Robot maneuver.
Drug Tests and Bell Checks: The Element of Surprise BikeSnobNYC 2009
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At La Schiavia, hunchbacked thistle stems were turned into a warm, delicate flan, accompanied by a bagna càuda sauce and a glass of local Barbera wine, and while the words "hunchback" and "thistle" don't generally set people's mouths watering, in Mr. Abrile's restaurant the result was downright delightful.
Where Health Springs Eternal Aaron Maines 2011
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But as a grownup, Mattlin says, his disability can make the holiday feel unsettling BEN MATTLIN: I never thought about a connection between disabilities and Halloween til I learned of the once-common fear of deformities - the limping, hunchbacked, hook-handed or one-eyed monsters of ancient fairy tales and old horror movies.
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His clashes with Gerhard Siegel's penetrating Mime, grotesquely hunchbacked and absurd in the extremity of his fawning and malevolence, took on a broad, cartoonish humor that worked.
Of Gods And Monsters Heidi Waleson 2011
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Shakespeares later play about Richard III, which cast the Plantagenet king as a scheming hunchbacked usurper who murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, so he could steal their throne for himself.
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The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed.
Chapter X 2010
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The cardo gobbo hunchbacked thistle is a perfect example.
Where Health Springs Eternal Aaron Maines 2011
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The third general--an old, hunchbacked man dressed in rags, with a scraggily beard and wild left eye--stepped forward.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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Expressionist distortions abound, from the angular streets to hunchbacked nine-year-old Lieschen whose "torso stood oddly twisted on its own axis".
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