humpier

Adjective

humpy (comparative humpier, superlative humpiest)

1. Characterised by humps, uneven.
   • A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made.1907, Edith M.H Baylor, A Little Prospector, page 60
2. Muscular; hunky.
   • The artist [Michelangelo] spends most of his time avoiding the Pope's clutches and pursuing his humpy, young models about the city and the studio.1981 December 27, Michael Bronski, “Models, Noblemen, and One Hell of a Ceiling”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 15
3. Hunched, bent over.
   • Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.1907, P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel, published 2008, page 107
4. Sulky; irritable.
   • As the rain poured down; and Frieda went on and on about the children; and Lawrence got humpier and humpier but kept asking ‘a dozen times a day in all keys, are you miserable’ (i. 534); it must have been the Christmas misery all over again.1996, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D.H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile, 1912-1922, volume 1, page 55

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