单词 | hunch |
释义 | hunch I. intransitive verb 1. < hunched along for a short spell of safe steps — T.B.Costain > < heavy shoulders … hunched through the open door — S.H.Adams > 2. a. < a technical sergeant hunches in a tiny cubicle — Fortune > < gripped the wheel, hunching over it — Gregor Felsen > < folded his hands on the table and hunched forward — Hugh MacLennan > b. < hunched on the rug — Margery Allingham > < hunch beneath the covers, in my curled red ball of darkness — Randall Jarrell > c. < we hunched close to the damp earth — H.D.Skidmore > < the home hunches on a one-acre point of land — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < the mountains hunched around the valley — Helen Rich > d. < the sea hunched up and hurled itself on the … land — H.E.Rieseberg > < his shoulder hunched convulsively — Bernard DeVoto > 3. transitive verb 1. < I would hunch my chair … closer to my dear and only cronies — Mary Nash > < tugboats … hunched their ocean-going charges to the quayside — Newman Bumstead > 2. < the crow hunched its shoulders, like an old woman seeking comfort in her moldy coat — Edita Morris > < kept his … body hunched slightly forward — Tennessee Williams > < if you hunch yourself up … it is probably due to self-consciousness or fatigue — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > : huddle < hunched ourselves into a little group in the corner > II. 1. < give him a good hunch with your foot — Abraham Tucker > 2. a. < his back carried a huge hunch — William Scoresby †1857 > b. < barter it for a hunch of cake — Flora Thompson > 3. < expressed her hunch that the photograph had slid off the desk — Saturday Review > especially < on a hunch, resolved to establish a rail and shipping terminus here — American Guide Series: Texas > |
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