hump
English
Etymology
Probably 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-, *kumbʰ- (“curved”).
Cognate with West Frisian hompe (“lump, chunk”), Icelandic huppur (“flank”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow”), Latin incumbō (“to lie down”), Albanian sumbull (“round button, bud”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”), Avestan 𐬑𐬎𐬨𐬠𐬀 (xumba, “pot”), Sanskrit कुम्ब (kúmba, “thick end of bone”)). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, Old English crump (“crooked, bent”). More at cramp.
Pronunciation
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Noun
hump (plural humps)
- A mound of earth.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
- get the hump, have the hump, take the hump, give someone the hump
- (slang) A painfully boorish person.
- That guy is such a hump!
- A speed hump.
Derived terms
- humpback
- hump day
- hump yard
- over the hump
- road hump
- speed hump
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Verb
hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)
- (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
- Stop humping the table, you sicko.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.
Derived terms
References
- “hump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.