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   hunch

   /hʌn(t)ʃ/

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   • 1. raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward: "Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow" Similar archcurvehumpbendbowcurlcrookcrouchhuddle upcurl uphunker downbendstoopsquatinformal:scoochOpposite straightenstretch out
   • ▪ sit or stand with one's shoulders raised and the top of one's body bent forward: "he hunched over his glass"

   noun

   • 1. a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact: "I have a hunch that someone is telling lies" Similar feelingguesssuspicionsneaking suspicionimpressioninklingideanotionfancypresentimentpremonitionintuitioninformal:gut feelingfeeling in one's bonesfunny feelingsixth sense
   • 2. a humped position or thing: "the hunch of his back" Similar protuberancehumplumpbumpknobprotrusionprominenceprojectionbulgeswellingnodulenodemassgrowthoutgrowthexcrescencerare:tumescencetumefactionintumescence
   • 3. a thick piece; a hunk: dialect "a hunch of bread"

   Word Origin late 15th century: of unknown origin. The original meaning was ‘push, shove’ (noun and verb), a sense retained now in Scots as a noun, and in US dialect as a verb. Sense 1 of the noun derives probably from a US sense of the verb ‘nudge someone in order to draw attention to something’.

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   What does hunch your shoulders mean?

   • [VERB adverb/preposition] If you hunch your shoulders, you raise them and lean forwards slightly. Wes hunched his shoulders and leaned forward on the edge of the counter.

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   What is the meaning of hunch?

   • A hunch is an intuition or guess, based on limited information. Do not hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.

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   What does the term 'Hunchback' mean?

   • In the sense of an intuitive impression, 'Hunchback' is said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback*. A hunchback is a **hump** or protuberance. It can also refer to a stooped or curled posture, such as 'the old man walked with a hunch'. In modern usage, hunchback can also mean a theory, idea, or guess, or an intuitive impression that something will happen.

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   What does hunch forward mean?

   • Then Mr. Kamenar, acting on a hunch, ran a computer check at the Federal Election Commission. If you hunch forward, you raise your shoulders, put your head down, and lean forwards, often because you are cold, ill, or unhappy. He got out his map of Yorkshire and hunched over it to read the small print. [VERB adverb/preposition]

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   What does hunch fordef 5 mean?

   • 1590–1600; 1900–05 hunch fordef 5; apparently variant of obsolete hinch to push, shove, kick < ? On a hunch, she forwarded them to Fraser Hunter, an archaeologist and curator at the National Museum of Scotland. I felt more excitement than fear, and had a hunch that living here would help me know myself in a new way.

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   Are hunches Good Guides?

   • Dogma, hunches, reference back to one's own golden school-days, are not good guides to what is best for the citizens of tomorrow. We do not have to rely simply on our hunches to answer that question. They sat in the town halls or other municipal buildings; and foul hunched more bureaux were set up in the less important towns.

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     HUNCH translate: die Ahnung. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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     hunch translate: pressentiment [masculine], intuition...

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   When you pose for pictures with short friends, you hunch over so you don't tower above them — you scrunch up your shoulders, bend your knees, and try to look smaller.

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