hunch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hump; a protuberance.
  2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
    — The old man walked with a hunch.
  3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
    — I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.
  4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
    — a hunch of bread
  5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
动词 v.
  1. To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. intransitive
    — Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.
  2. To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). transitive
    — They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.
  3. To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. intransitive
    — […] the figure hunched up the road.
  4. To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back. transitive
    — […] thou art all one errour; soul and body. The first young tryal of some unskill’d Pow’r; Rude in the making Art, and Ape of Jove. Thy crooked mind within hunch’d out thy back; And wander’d in thy limbs:
  5. To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone). transitive
    — After this, we saw a great Troop of Women upon the High-way to Hell, with their Bags; and their fellows, at their Heels, ever, and anon, hunching, and Justling one Another.
  6. To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess. colloquial,intransitive
    — People who are instinctive hunchers go through some such process at every decision-making point of their lives. It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.

词形变化

hunches plural hunches present,singular,third-person hunching participle,present hunched participle,past hunched past

词汇关系

衍生词
hunchbacked hunch cuddy hunch hunchless unhunch hunch over huncher hunchback play a hunch play one's hunch follow one's hunch

词源

词源 1
Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.
Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.
词源 2
Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.
Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.
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