Humpy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Characterised by humps, uneven.

   “A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made.”

2. sıfat Muscular; hunky.

   “The artist [Michelangelo] spends most of his time avoiding the Pope's clutches and pursuing his humpy, young models about the city and the studio.”

3. sıfat Hunched, bent over.

   “Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.”

4. sıfat Sulky; irritable.

   “As the rain poured down; and Frieda went on and on about the children; and Lawrence got humpier and humpier but kept asking ‘a dozen times a day in all keys, are you miserable’ (i. 534); it must have been the Christmas misery all over again.”

5. isim Alternative form of humpie.

   “It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and shipped to restaurants and supermarkets half a world away.”

6. isim A white perch (Morone americana).
7. isim A temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, traditionally used by Aboriginal people.

   “It was a new humpy of bark and saplings, quaintly impressive of white man’s defiance of the wild.”

8. isim Any crude or temporary dwelling, especially made from found materials; a bush hut.

   “They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]”

9. özel isim A nickname for someone with a deformity.
10. özel isim A nickname for someone who is very sexually active.
11. özel isim A diminutive of the male given names Humphrey or Humphry.