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hunched Definition


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hunch
noun
    1. An idea, guess or belief based on feelings, suspicions or intuition rather than on actual evidence.
      Thesaurus: inkling, premonition, presentiment, intuition, hint, clue, feeling, impression, notion, qualm, suspicion, foreboding.
    2. A hump.
verb hunched, hunching
    1. To bend or arch; to hump.
    intr
    2. To sit with the body hunched or curled up.
      Form: hunch up (also)
Etymology: 16c.



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