humpbacked

[huhmp-bakt]

hump·backed

[huhmp-bakt]
adjective
having a hump on the back.

Origin:
1675–85; blend of huckbacked (huck haunch + backed) and crumpbacked (Old English crump crooked + backed)
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Humpbacked is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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humpback (ˈhʌmpˌbæk)
 
n
1.  another word for hunchback
2.  Also called: humpback whale a large whalebone whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, closely related and similar to the rorquals but with a humped back and long flippers: family Balaenopteridae
3.  a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, the male of which has a humped back and hooked jaws
4.  (Brit) Also called: humpback bridge a road bridge having a sharp incline and decline and usually a narrow roadway
 
[C17: alteration of earlier crumpbacked, perhaps influenced by hunchback; perhaps related to Dutch homp lump]
 
'humpbacked
 
adj

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