humpbacked

[ huhmp-bakt ]

adjective

1. having a hump on the back.

Word History and Origins

Origin of humpbacked¹

1675–85; blend of huckbacked ( huck haunch + backed ) and crumpbacked ( Old English crump crooked + backed )

Example Sentences

There are also numerous depictions of a humpbacked flute player known as Kokopelli.

From Outside Online

A sprawling, humpbacked mountain frowned on us And blotted out a smouldering sunset cloud That broke in fiery ashes.

From Project Gutenberg

He seems to have gone about looking quite ugly and humpbacked, as our old cat does when she has words with the dog.

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She indicated a small humpbacked trunk covered with moth-eaten horsehair.

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Get a gun and go out and drop that humpbacked old Injy-cracker!

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Old Joe left his daytime den, a burrow beneath a humpbacked boulder, half an hour after nightfall.

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Related Words

• awry
• bowed
• contorted
• damaged
• disfigured
• gnarled
• mangled
• misshapen
• scarred
• twisted
• warped