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What is the noun for hunch?

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hunch
  1. A hump; a protuberance.
  2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
  3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
  4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
  5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “It is only where the decision is clearly random, or based on a hunch or prejudice, that the officer's action is likely to be regarded as unreasonable.”
      “Buffon assumes that the callosities on his joints and the hunch on his back are not natural to him.”
hunchback
  1. One who is stooped or hunched over.
  2. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
  3. (derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.”
      “A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.”
      “In 1594, Shakespeare wrote Richard III, a play falsely depicting the Tudors ' defeated adversary as a child-murdering hunchback.”
huncher
  1. One who hunches or slouches over.
  2. (colloquial) One who has hunches, or makes intuitive guesses.
hunching
  1. The motion by which something is hunched.
hunchbacks
  1. plural of hunchback
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Post-cyclonic palm trees on either side of the motorway were bent like hunchbacks.”
      “A pencil drawing from 1982 presents four hunchbacks and freaks aboard a humpless camel standing on a platform mounted on a wheelcart.”
      “You'd see old ladies with hunchbacks, who had been harvesting their whole lives.”
hunchings
  1. plural of hunching
hunchers
  1. plural of huncher
hunches
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