Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who is stooped or hunched over.

  2. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.

  3. (derogatory)A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.

    Buckliger, Bucklige

More definitions
  • a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
  • an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Tom is a hunchback.

    deTom hat einen Buckel.

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  2. I helped an old hunchback cross the street.

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  3. The hunchback doesn't see his own hump but his companion's.

    deDer Bucklige sieht seinen Buckel nicht, aber den seines Gefährten.

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  4. If you keep using that posture, you'll become a hunchback.

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  5. In a land of hunchbacks, upright elegance will be a notable exception.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
derogatory: person with kyphosis:

Origin

Back-formation from hunchbacked.

Back-formation from hunchbacked.

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Forms

plural: hunchbacks
Singularhunchback
Pluralhunchbacks

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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