hump

Meaning

Noun

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, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (British, slang, with-definite-article) 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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
4. (intransitive, slang, transitive, vulgar) To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
5. (US, dated, slang) To exert oneself; to make an effort.
6. (dated, slang) To vex or annoy.
7. To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.

Synonyms

bump

hunch

bulge

lump

fuck

👉👌

eff

screw

mound

bonk

hill

knot

🪢

swelling

hummock

humpback

bang

excrescence

hillock

get laid

knoll

have sex

gibbosity

prominence

hunchback

protuberance

extrusion

do it

bed

🛏️

hunch forward

tumor

roll in the hay

sleep with

be intimate

hunch over

curve

have intercourse

protrusion

make love

make out

kyphosis

knob

gibbousness

have a go at it

jazz

have it away

have it off

jut

get it on

know

rise

lie with

Translations

bosse

joroba

Buckel

Höcker

gobba

corcova

bult

corcunda

giba

bochel

Hügel

corcova

protuberanza

gibba

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌmp/

Etymology

Cognate with Western Frisian: hompe

Cognate with Icelandic: huppur

Cognate with Welsh: cwm

Cognate with Latin: incumbō

Cognate with Albanian: sumbull

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κύμβη

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬑𐬎𐬨𐬠𐬀

Cognate with Sanskrit: कुम्ब

Cognate with Old English: crump

In summary

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”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?).
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.