hunch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hump; a protuberance.
2. isim A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.

   “The old man walked with a hunch.”

3. isim A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.

   “I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.”

4. isim A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.

   “a hunch of bread”

5. isim A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
6. fiil To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.

   “Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.”

7. fiil To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).

   “They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.”

8. fiil To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.

   “[…] the figure hunched up the road.”

9. fiil To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.

   “[…] thou art all one errour; soul and body. The first young tryal of some unskill’d Pow’r; Rude in the making Art, and Ape of Jove. Thy crooked mind within hunch’d out thy back; And wander’d in thy limbs:”

10. fiil To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).

    “After this, we saw a great Troop of Women upon the High-way to Hell, with their Bags; and their fellows, at their Heels, ever, and anon, hunching, and Justling one Another.”

11. fiil To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

    “People who are instinctive hunchers go through some such process at every decision-making point of their lives. It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.”