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"etymology_text": "Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.\nAlternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.",
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"A hump; a protuberance."
],
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "donqa"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gǎrbica",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гърбица"
},
{
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "gep"
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{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bochel"
},
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
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"word": "bult"
},
{
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "ĝibo"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "kyttyrä"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bosse"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 1 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "chepa"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hügel"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Protuberanz"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 3 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Buckel"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kampoúra",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "καμπούρα"
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ógkos",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "όγκος"
},
{
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "gibbo"
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "gŕpka",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гр́пка"
},
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "corcunda"
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
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"text": "The old man walked with a hunch.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"A stooped or curled posture; a slouch."
],
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[
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "izgǎrbvane",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "изгърбване"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gekromde houding"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 91 1 1 1",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kromme rug"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "kumara"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gekrümmte Haltung"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 91 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "krummer Rücken"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "καμπούρα"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "púp"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "kinövés"
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"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "dudor"
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"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "hokinn"
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"roman": "podgrbúvanje",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "подгрбу́вање"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сутулая поза"
},
{
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"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "bukri"
}
]
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{
"text": "I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.",
"type": "example"
}
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"A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen."
],
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"theory",
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[
"idea",
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],
[
"guess",
"guess"
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[
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"intuitive"
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[
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"impression"
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"sense": "guess",
"word": "hint"
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"sense": "guess",
"word": "clue"
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"word": "inkling"
}
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"roman": "predčuvstvie",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предчувствие"
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pressentiment"
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"_dis1": "1 2 91 4 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yùgǎn",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "预感"
},
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "tušení"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 91 4 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "předtucha"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pocit"
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{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ingeving"
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{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "idee"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "aavistus"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "intuition"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "pressentiment"
},
{
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ahnung"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gefühl"
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "proaísthima",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "tẖushát béten",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "תְּחוּשַׁת בֶּטֶן"
},
{
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "gyanú"
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"_dis1": "1 2 91 4 2",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "sejtelem"
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{
"_dis1": "1 2 91 4 2",
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "megérzés"
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{
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"masculine"
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"word": "tuaileas"
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{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 2 91 4 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "presentimento"
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"text": "a hunch of bread",
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"note": "of bread",
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"word": "кома́т"
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"sense": "hunk; lump; thick piece",
"word": "kimpale"
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"_dis1": "1 2 2 92 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"tags": [
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"ipa": "/hʌnt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/hʌnʃ/"
},
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"ref": "1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Part 2, Chapter 2",
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"text": "1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, New York: Scribner, Chapter 17,\nHe would hunch his twisted body close and put out his gentle and crooked hand and touch the fawn."
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"ref": "1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 10, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1958, page 142",
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"ref": "1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Inspired Chicken Motel”, in I Sing the Body Electric, New York: Knopf, page 57",
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"text": "1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18,\n[…] wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room."
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"ref": "1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 2, Letter 1, p. 8",
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"ref": "1899, Sutton E. Griggs, chapter 6, in Imperium in Imperio",
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"ref": "1974, Maya Angelou, chapter 12, in Gather Together in My Name, New York: Bantam, published 1975, page 40",
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"ref": "1986, Billy Roche, chapter 6, in Tumbling Down, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, published 1994, pages 102–103",
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гр́пка"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "corcunda"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "corcova"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protuberância"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "jimmu"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "hump; protuberance",
"word": "tümsek"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izgǎrbvane",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "изгърбване"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gekromde houding"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kromme rug"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "kumara"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gekrümmte Haltung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "krummer Rücken"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kampoúra",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "καμπούρα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "púp"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "kinövés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "dudor"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "hokinn"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podgrbúvanje",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "подгрбу́вање"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сутулая поза"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "stooped or curled posture",
"word": "bukri"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predčuvstvie",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "предчувствие"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pressentiment"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yùgǎn",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "预感"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tušení"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "předtucha"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pocit"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ingeving"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "idee"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "aavistus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "intuition"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "pressentiment"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ahnung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gefühl"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "proaísthima",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "προαίσθημα"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "tẖushát béten",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "תְּחוּשַׁת בֶּטֶן"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "gyanú"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "sejtelem"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "megérzés"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tuaileas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intuizione"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "presentimento"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "prétčuvstvo",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пре́тчувство"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palpite"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pressentimento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intuição"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "idéja",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "иде́я"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dogádka",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дога́дка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "corazonada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pálpito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "intuición"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "aning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hum"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "kutob"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "his"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "önsezi"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "sezgi"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "idea, theory",
"word": "taxmin"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "búca",
"sense": "hunk; lump; thick piece",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бу́ца"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"note": "of bread",
"roman": "komát",
"sense": "hunk; lump; thick piece",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кома́т"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hunk; lump; thick piece",
"word": "kimpale"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hunk; lump; thick piece",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dickes Stück"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "párče",
"sense": "hunk; lump; thick piece",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "па́рче"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "push or thrust",
"word": "tönäisy"
}
],
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}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ʌntʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ʌntʃ/1 syllable"
],
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{
"word": "hunch over"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
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},
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"word": "play a hunch"
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{
"word": "play one's hunch"
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{
"word": "follow one's hunch"
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 5, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, New York: HarperPerenniel, published 1994, page 156",
"text": "Sandy, you will never get anywhere by hunching over your putter, hold your shoulders back and bend from the waist.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978, Armistead Maupin, “… and many happy returns”, in Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine Books, page 76",
"text": "She rolled over and hunched into a fetal position.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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],
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],
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"word": "slouch"
},
{
"word": "stoop"
},
{
"word": "lean"
}
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"text": "They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He hunched up his shoulders and stared down at the ground.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1672, Edward Ravenscroft, The Citizen Turn’d Gentleman, London: Thomas Dring, act I, scene 1, page 4",
"text": "Danc[ing] Mast[er]. […] not too fast […] keep you[r] leg[s] straight, […] don’t hunch up your shoulders so;",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Part 2, Chapter 2",
"text": "If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed....",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, New York: Scribner, Chapter 17,\nHe would hunch his twisted body close and put out his gentle and crooked hand and touch the fawn."
},
{
"ref": "1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 10, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1958, page 142",
"text": "They sat looking out at the dark, at the square of light the kitchen lantern threw on the ground outside the door, with a hunched shadow of Grampa in the middle of it.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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[
"up",
"up"
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],
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"(transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1955, J. P. Donleavy, chapter 2, in The Ginger Man, New York: Dell, page 9",
"text": "[…] the figure hunched up the road.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Inspired Chicken Motel”, in I Sing the Body Electric, New York: Knopf, page 57",
"text": "[…] once we had hunched in out of the sun and slunk through a cold pork-and-beans-on-bread lunch […] my brother and I found a desert creek nearby and heaved rocks at each other to cool off.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18,\n[…] wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room."
}
],
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"To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders."
],
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[
"walk",
"walk"
]
],
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"(intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders."
],
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"word": "slouch"
}
],
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"intransitive"
]
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"English transitive verbs"
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{
"ref": "1679, John Dryden, Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus, London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, act I, page 6",
"text": "[…] thou art all one errour; soul and body.\nThe first young tryal of some unskill’d Pow’r;\nRude in the making Art, and Ape of Jove.\nThy crooked mind within hunch’d out thy back;\nAnd wander’d in thy limbs:",
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}
],
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],
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[
"hump",
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]
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{
"ref": "1667, “The Sixth Vision of Hell”, in Roger L’Estrange, transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, pages 182–183",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 2, Letter 1, p. 8",
"text": "Hickman, a great over-grown, lank-hair’d, chubby boy, who would be hunch’d and punch’d by every-body; and go home, with his finger in his eye, and tell his mother.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1899, Sutton E. Griggs, chapter 6, in Imperium in Imperio",
"text": "He let his eyes scan the faces of all the white teachers, male and female, but would end up with a stare at the colored man sitting there. Finally, he hunched his seat-mate with his elbow and asked what man that was.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, Maya Angelou, chapter 12, in Gather Together in My Name, New York: Bantam, published 1975, page 40",
"text": "She hunched me and winked.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Billy Roche, chapter 6, in Tumbling Down, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, published 1994, pages 102–103",
"text": "[…] Crunch burst through, pretending to be in Croke Park or somewhere, hunching me away with his shoulder and holding the ghost of other players at bay as he picked up the football.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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],
[
"jostle",
"jostle"
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[
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],
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"word": "elbow"
},
{
"word": "nudge"
}
],
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"transitive"
]
},
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "2010, Max Gunther, The Luck Factor",
"text": "People who are instinctive hunchers go through some such process at every decision-making point of their lives. It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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],
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"colloquial",
"intransitive"
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}
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},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pregǎrbvam se",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "прегърбвам се"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"tags": [
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"word": "hrbit se"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "nahrbit se"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "kyyristellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "olla kumarassa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "se voûter"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kampouriázo",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "καμπουριάζω"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se návedne",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "се на́ведне"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se podgŕbavi",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "се подгр́бави"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "grbávee",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "грба́вее"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "whakahake"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "curvar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sutúlitʹsja",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "суту́литься"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "górbitʹsja",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "го́рбиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sgibátʹsja",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "сгиба́ться"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to slouch, stoop",
"word": "huka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to push or thrust suddenly",
"word": "tönäistä"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvivam",
"sense": "to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back",
"word": "извивам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to crook",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back",
"word": "köyristää"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podgŕbavi",
"sense": "to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back",
"word": "подгр́бави"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ískrivi",
"sense": "to thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back",
"word": "и́скриви"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess",
"word": "aavistaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess",
"word": "uumoilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess",
"word": "ounastella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess",
"word": "vaistota"
}
],
"word": "hunch"
}
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