hunchback
noun/ˈhʌnt͡ʃbæk/
Etymology Back-formation from hunchbacked.
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.
- The Legend of Knock-Grafton tells how a little hunchback, while sitting to rest at nightfall at the side of a Rath or Moat, heard the fairies within singing over and over again, Da Luan, Da Mart! (i.e., Monday, Tuesday!) and added, weary with the monotony, Agus da Cadin! (i.e., and Wednesday!).1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 364:
- Derived terms
- Kelso's hunchback, hunchbacked