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Definitions for Hunch

[1] to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
[2] to shove, push, or jostle.
[3] to thrust oneself forward jerkily; lunge forward.
[4] to stand, sit, or walk in a bent posture.
[5] a premonition or suspicion; guess: I have a hunch he'll run for reelection.
[6] a hump.
[7] a push or shove.
[8] a lump or thick piece.
[9] an intuitive guess or feeling
[10] another word for hump
[11] a lump or large piece
[12] to bend or draw (oneself or a part of the body) up or together
[13] (intr usually foll by up ) to sit in a hunched position

Words related to Hunch

instinct, premonition, intuition, inkling, stoop, huddle, squat, impression, foreboding, augury, portent, anticipation, hint, precognition, forecast, foreknowledge, suspicion, glimmer, presage, forewarning

Words nearby Hunch

humus, humvee, hun, hun-tun, hunan, hunch, hunchback, hunchback of notre dame, the, hunchbacked, hund., hundred

Origin of Hunch

1590–1600; 1900–05 for def 5 ; apparently variant of obsolete hinch to push, shove, kick < ?

Words that may be confused with Hunch

haunch, hunch

Word origin for Hunch

C16: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Hunch

inkling, instinct, intuition, premonition, anticipation, apprehension, augury, boding, clue, expectation, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, glimmer, hint, impression, misgiving, notion, portent, precognition, presage, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought, auguration, feeling in one's bones, forewisdom, funny feeling, omination, preapprehension, preconceived notion, prenotation, prenotice, presagement