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/ˈhʌmpbæk/ · noun
A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine)..
[…] the Stone in my Fathers Body was so immense, that I’ve wonder’d it did not bunch up behind, and make him have a Hump-back, or at least overpoise him in walking, and drag him backward with its incredible weight.
In the Male Line, there happened an unlucky Accident in the Reign of Richard the Third; the eldest Son of Philip, then Chief of the Family, being born with an Hump-back and very high Nose.
Diana Vernon, the most beautiful creature I ever beheld, in love with him, the bandy-legged, bull-necked, limping scoundrel!—Richard the Third in all but his hump-back!
[…] Mr. Jos had the honour of leading out the Countess of Schlusselback, an old lady with a hump back, but with sixteen good quarters of nobility and related to half the royal houses of Germany.
He saw Dmitri half rise from his chair so that the shadow of his humpback shifted on the whitewashed wall.
[…] Tom’s more specific and kindly impressions gradually melted into the old background of suspicion and dislike toward him as a queer fellow, a humpback, and the son of a rogue.
[…] I stared up at the raw spots on his cheek and thought, there is no safety anywhere: a humpback, a cripple—they all have the trigger that sets love off.
The captain of the James Rodgers […] was an old hand at humpbacking […]
Use humpback when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Humpback means A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine)..
Common synonyms include crookback, hunchback, kyphosis, humpback whale.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] the Stone in my Fathers Body was so immense, that I’ve wonder’d it did not bunch up behind, and make him have a Hump-back, or at least overpoise him in walking, and drag him backward with its incredible weight.
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