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hunchbacks

hunchbacks is the plural of hunchback.

Meaning of hunchback

Noun

hunchback (plural hunchbacks)

  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.
    • The Legend of Knock-Grafton tells how a little hunchback, while sitting to rest at nightfall at the side of a Rath or Moat, heard the fairies within singing over and over again, Da Luan, Da Mart! (i.e., Monday, Tuesday!) and added, weary with the monotony, Agus da Cadin! (i.e., and Wednesday!).1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 364

Questions about hunchbacks

What is hunchbacks the plural of?
Hunchbacks is the plural of hunchback.

Words near hunchbacks in the dictionary

  1. hunch over
  2. Hunchakist
  3. Hunchakists
  4. hunchback
  5. hunchbacked
  6. hunchbacks
  7. hunched
  8. hunched over
  9. huncher
  10. hunchers
  11. hunches

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