| 单词 | hunch |
| 释义 | hunch (once / 2038 pages) 1n 2vn When you pose for pictures with short friends, you hunch over so you don't tower above them — you scrunch up your shoulders, bend your knees, and try to look smaller. You can also have a hunch, which has nothing to do with scrunching. When you have a hunch about something, you think it might be true. Your dog bolts over the fence, and you have a hunch he's heading for the neighbor who feeds him pâté. Hunch is an odd word of unknown origin, which seems to have originally meant "to push or shove" — to nudge. WORD FAMILYhunch: hunched, hunches, hunching USAGE EXAMPLESA few weeks later, though, the detectives were back, acting on what the court papers describe as a hunch. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) I crept down the stairs, back hunched, knees bent — attempting to lower my center of gravity. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) They named the male entitlement to public space that leaves women on trains and airplanes hunched into corners: manspreading. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1 n an impression that something might be the case 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper intuition, suspicion bosom, heart the locus of feelings and intuitions belief, feeling, impression, notion, opinion a vague idea in which some confidence is placed 1v round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward Syn|Hyper hump, hunch forward, hunch over change posture undergo a change in bodily posture 2n the act of bending yourself into a humped position Hyper bending the act of bending something |
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