bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; āthe gun in his pocket made an obvious bulgeā; āthe hump of a camelā; āhe stood on the rocky prominenceā; āthe occipital protuberance was well developedā; āthe bony excrescence between its hornsā
hunch, hump, hunch forward, hunch over
(verb) round oneās back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hump (plural humps)
A mound of earth.
A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
(animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
(British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
(slang) A painfully boorish person.
A speed hump.
A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
• (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback
hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)
(transitive) To bend something into a hump.
(transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
to rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse
(transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
(transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
(US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
(slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
(rail) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
• (to carry): heft, shoulder, tote; see also carry
• (to go on foot): hike, trek, walk; see also walk
• (to have sex): bang, bone, ride, shag; see also copulate or copulate with
• (to vex): bother, irk, rile; see also annoy
• umph
the Hump
(historical, World War 2, slang) The Himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.
• umph
Source: Wiktionary
Hump, n. Etym: [Cf. D. homp a lump, LG. hump heap, hill, stump, possibly akin to E. heap. Cf. Hunch.]
1. A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
2. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
The worldās most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet ā a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
