4 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
verb round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
verb have sexual intercourse with
originProbably borrowed 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- (“curved”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?).…
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