• Hump

    Pronunciation

    • Canada IPA: /hÊŒmp/
    • Rhymes: -ÊŒmp

    Origin

    Probably 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-, *kumbÊ°- ("curved").

    Cognates

    Cognate with West Frisian hompe ("lump, chunk"), Icelandic huppur ("flank"), Welsh cwm ("a hollow"), Latin incumbō (""), Albanian sumbull ("round button, bud"), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kýmbē, "bowl"), Avestan (xumba, "pot") , Sanskrit कुम्ब (kúmba, "thick end of bone")). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, Old English crump ("crooked, bent"). More at cramp.

    Noun

    hump

    (plural humps)
    1. A mound of earth.
    2. A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
    3. A speed hump.
    4. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
    5. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
    6. (British, slang) A bad mood.get the hump, have the hump, take the hump.
    7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.That guy is such a hump!

    Synonyms

    Full definition of hump

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
    2. (transitive, slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
    3. (intransitive, slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
    4. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
    5. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
    6. (intransitive, slang) To have sex.

    Derived terms

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