hunch

/'hʌntʃ/
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hunch

She has a hunch that it's going to rain.

Definition

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
hunch

She has a hunch that it's going to rain.

Noun
  1. the act of bending yourself into a humped position
  2. an impression that something might be the case
    • he had an intuition that something had gone wrong
Verb
  1. round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

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