hunch
/'hʌntʃ/
Definition
Noun:
- A feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts: A "hunch" is an impression or belief that something is true or will happen, even without conscious reasoning or evidence.
- A humped or rounded shape; a bend: A "hunch" can refer to the act or posture of bending the body into a curve, often involving rounded shoulders.
Verb:
- To bend the top part of your body forward and raise your shoulders, making your back rounded: The action of arching one's back into a curved, often tense, position.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Intuition):
- I had a hunch that it would rain today, so I brought an umbrella.
- She followed her hunch and took a different route home.
- Noun (Posture):
- He sat at his desk with a tired hunch in his shoulders.
- Verb:
- He hunched over his book to read the small print.
- The cold made her hunch her shoulders up to her ears.
Advanced Usage
- "To have a hunch (that)...": To possess a strong intuitive feeling about something.
- I have a hunch that he knows more than he's telling us.
- "To play a hunch": To act based on an intuition or guess.
- The detective played a hunch and searched the old warehouse.
Variants and Related Words
- Hunched (adj): Having the back and shoulders rounded.
- The hunched figure walked slowly down the street.
- Hunchback (n): An old term, now considered offensive, for a person with a severe curvature of the spine. (Note: This is a compound word and a separate term from the target word "hunch").
Synonyms
- Noun (Intuition): Feeling, intuition, impression, suspicion, guess.
- Noun (Posture): Bend, curve, arch, stoop.
- Verb: Stoop, bend, curve, arch, crouch.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Hunch over: To bend forward while sitting or standing.
- He hunched over his computer all day and now his back hurts.
- Hunch up: To raise and tighten the shoulders, often due to cold or fear.
- She hunched up, trying to stay warm in the chilly wind.
Related Idioms
- "To follow your hunch": To act according to your intuition.
- There was no evidence, but she decided to follow her hunch.
Noun
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the act of bending yourself into a humped position
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an impression that something might be the case
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he had an intuition that something had gone wrong
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Verb
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round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
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