hump

See also: 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”).

Cognates

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
  • (Canada, UK) IPA(key): /hʌmp/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp
Camels have humps on their backs.

Noun

hump (plural humps)

  1. A mound of earth.
  2. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
  3. (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
  4. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  5. (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
    get the hump, have the hump, take the hump, give someone the hump
  6. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
    That guy is such a hump!
  7. A speed hump.

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Verb

hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)

  1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
    Stop humping the table, you sicko.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humper, definite plural humpene)

  1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humpar, definite plural humpane)

  1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

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