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Hunch   /həntʃ/   Listen
Hunch

noun
1.
An impression that something might be the case.  Synonyms: intuition, suspicion.
2.
The act of bending yourself into a humped position.
verb
(past & past part. hunched; pres. part. hunching)
1.
Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward.  Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over.



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"Hunch" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature of a hunch. Within twenty-four hours he would be wandering over Paris as he had wandered yesterday. That would not do at all. Of course, he could pack up and go on to England, but at the moment he felt that it would be even worse there, where all ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... have gone days on a handful of barley-ears. M. le Colonel has his marmitons, and his fricassees, and his fine cuisine where he camps—ho!—but we soldiers have nothing but a hunch of baked chaff. Well, ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... any, thank God! If you knew what it was to hunch a horrible canvas sausage of kit about, you'd ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... to no other creature than the tamanoir, or great ant-eater, by the people of South America called the ant-bear. It was, in fact, that very thing; but to Leon's astonishment, as soon as it got fairly out of the bushes, he noticed a singular-looking hunch upon its back, just over the shoulder. At first he could not make out what this was, as he had never heard of such a protuberance, besides, the tail half hid it from his view. All of a sudden the animal turned its head backwards, touched the hunch ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid
... a hunch. I'll bet that by the time I get married to Strathie there'll be nothing left but republics, and no titles at tall. His people came over with Henry the Conqueror and his title will last just long enough for ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes


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