| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h nch |
| NOUN: | 1. An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose. 2. A hump. 3. A lump or chunk: “She . . . cut herself another hunch of bread” (Virginia Woolf, Orlando 1928). 4. A push or shove. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: hunched, hunch·ing, hunch·es
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To bend or draw up into a hump: I hunched my shoulders against the wind. 2. To push or shove. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To assume a crouched or cramped posture: The cat hunched in a corner. 2. To thrust oneself forward. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Origin unknown.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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