hunches

We have found lemma(root) word of hunches : hunch.

Definitions


[hʌn(t)ʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward
(e.g: Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century: of unknown origin. The original meaning was ‘push, shove’ (noun and verb), a sense retained now in Scots as a noun, and in US dialect as a verb. Sense 1 of the noun derives probably from a US sense of the verb ‘nudge someone in order to draw attention to something’


[hʌn(t)ʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact
(e.g: I have a hunch that someone is telling lies)

- a humped position or thing
(e.g: the hunch of his back)

- a thick piece; a hunk
(e.g: a hunch of bread)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century: of unknown origin. The original meaning was ‘push, shove’ (noun and verb), a sense retained now in Scots as a noun, and in US dialect as a verb. Sense 1 of the noun derives probably from a US sense of the verb ‘nudge someone in order to draw attention to something’




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