hunchback

[huhnch-bak]

hunch·back

[huhnch-bak]
noun
1.
a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
2.
humpback (def. 1).

Origin:
1705–15; back formation from hunchbacked
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Hunchback is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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hunchback (ˈhʌntʃˌbæk)
 
n
1.  a person having an abnormal convex curvature of the thoracic spine
2.  such a curvature
 
[C18: from earlier hunchbacked, huckbacked humpbacked, influenced by bunchbacked, from bunch (in obsolete sense of hump) + backed]
 
'hunchbacked
 
adj

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