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You can make 8 words from hunch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of hunch

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Definitions and meaning of hunch

hunch

Etymology

Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.

Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump +‎ -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump +‎ -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʌnt͡ʃ/, /hʌnʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

Noun

hunch (plural hunches)

1. A hump; a protuberance.
2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.

3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.

4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

Synonyms

• (guess): hint, clue, inkling

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Verb

hunch (third-person singular simple present hunches, present participle hunching, simple past and past participle hunched)

1. (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.

   Synonyms: slouch, stoop, lean
2. (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
   • 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, New York: Scribner, Chapter 17,^[5]

     He would hunch his twisted body close and put out his gentle and crooked hand and touch the fawn.
3. (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.

   Synonym: slouch

   • 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18,^[9]

     […] wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room.

4. (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
5. (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).

   Synonyms: elbow, nudge
6. (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

Derived terms

• hunch over

Translations

Derived terms

• hunchback (noun)
• play a hunch, play one's hunch, follow one's hunch

Anagrams

• Chhun