hunchback
huhnch bak
- n an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
- n a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
- Superstitious, he liked always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck.
- When the hunchback goes away to war, love for each other overcomes pity and discretion in the wife and brother.
- He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing.