hump

Meaning

1. A mound of earth.
2. A speed bump or speed hump.
3. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
4. A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
5. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (slang) A bad mood.
7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

bump

be intimate

hunch forward

gibbus

have intercourse

have it away

have a go at it

preiection

uphearal

upswell

crest value

cyphosis

double incline

hit with fist

saddle-backing

gibbose bunchy

back fat

mean reds

bad mood

peak value

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌmp/

Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian hompe (“lump, chunk”), Icelandic huppur (“flank”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow”), Latin incumbō (“to lie down”), Albanian sumbull (“round button, bud”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”), Avestan 𐬑𐬎𐬨𐬠𐬀 (xumba, “pot”), Sanskrit कुम्ब (kúmba, “thick end of bone”)). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, Old English crump (“crooked, bent”). More at cramp.

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