hump
Plural: humps
Noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- "the hump of a camel"
- A mound of earth.
- A speed bump or speed hump.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A bad mood.
- A painfully boorish person.
- A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
Verb
Verb Forms: humped, humping, humps
- To arch or raise one's back into a rounded protuberance.
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
- have sexual intercourse with
- To bend something into a hump.
- To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
- To dry-hump.
- To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
- To have sex (with).
- To exert oneself; to make an effort.
- To vex or annoy.
- To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
Examples
- Go away! You're giving me the right hump.
- She's got the hump with me.
- Stop humping the table, you sicko.
- That guy is such a hump!
- The tiles seemed to hump together, forming an unplayable cluster on his rack.
Origin / 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- (“curved”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?).
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.
Synonyms
bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, bulge, bump, do it, eff, excrescence, extrusion, fuck, get it on, get laid, gibbosity, gibbousness, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hunch, hunch forward, hunch over, jazz, jut, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, swelling, annoy, bone, bother, carry, copulate, copulate with, gibbous, heft, hike, humpback, hunchback, irk, ride, rile, shag, shoulder, tote, trek, walk
Scrabble Score: 11
hump: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhump: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hump: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary