Meaning

8 senses
  1. (transitive)To bend something into a hump.

  2. (ambitransitive)To carry (something), especially with some exertion.

  3. To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.

    (ambitransitive, slang, vulgar)To dry-hump.

    Stop humping the table, you sicko.

  4. (ambitransitive, slang, vulgar)To have sex (with).

    bumsen, vögeln, poppen

    тра́хатьtráxatʹ, трахатьсяtraxatʹsja

    have sexual intercourse with

  5. (US, dated, slang)To exert oneself; to make an effort.

  6. (dated, slang)To vex or annoy.

  7. To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.

  8. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive)To botch or spoil.

Examples

37 sentences
  1. This job gives me the hump.

    deDiese Arbeit zieht mich runter.

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  2. The camel doesn't notice its hump.

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  3. The camel doesn't realize its hump.

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  4. Camels have either one or two humps.

    deKamele haben entweder einen oder zwei Höcker.

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  5. Yanni wants to fix his neck hump.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to have sex with:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to have sex with:

Origin

Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, s

Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?).

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Forms

humps, humping, humped, humped
Base formhump · to hump
3rd person singularhumps
Present participlehumping
Past simplehumped
Past participlehumped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhump
he, she, ithumps

Past simpleLesson

all personshumped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave humped
he, she, ithas humped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hump

Synonyms

40 synonyms
to have sex:bangB1
to vex:botherA2
to go on foot:hikeA2
to carry:heft
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

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