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hump

UK/hʌmp/ US/hɐmp/ fairly common slang uk us
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

  • “the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”
  • “the hump of a camel”
  • “he stood on the rocky prominence”
  • “the occipital protuberance was well developed”
  • “the bony excrescence between its horns”
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verb

1.
2.

have sexual intercourse with

  • “This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
  • “Adam knew Eve”
  • “Were you ever intimate with this man?”
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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • buffalo hump
  • bust one's hump
  • Calcutta hump
  • dowager's hump
  • get one's hump up
  • Hampton hump
  • Hampton's hump
  • Harrington hump
  • hump and dump
  • hump it
  • hump someone's brains out
  • jump hump

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