hunch
verb
[ hʌn(t)ʃ ]
• raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward.
• "Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow"
Similar:
arch,
curve,
hump,
bend,
bow,
curl,
crook,
crouch,
huddle up,
curl up,
hunker down,
stoop,
squat,
scooch,
hunch
noun
• a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact.
• "I have a hunch that someone is telling lies"
Similar:
feeling,
guess,
suspicion,
sneaking suspicion,
impression,
inkling,
idea,
notion,
fancy,
presentiment,
premonition,
intuition,
gut feeling,
feeling in one's bones,
funny feeling,
sixth sense,
• a humped position or thing.
• "the hunch of his back"
Similar:
protuberance,
hump,
lump,
bump,
knob,
protrusion,
prominence,
projection,
bulge,
swelling,
nodule,
node,
mass,
growth,
outgrowth,
excrescence,
tumescence,
tumefaction,
intumescence,
• a thick piece; a hunk.
• "a hunch of bread"
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’.
