hunch
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hunch englanniksi
A hump; a protuberance.
(ux)
A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
(RQ:Doyle Land of Mist)
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
(syn)
{{quote-book|en|year=1961|author=Muriel Spark|title=The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie|location=New York|publisher=HarperPerenniel|year_published=1994|chapter=5|page=156|url=https://archive.org/details/primeofmissjeanb00muri_1
{{quote-book|en|year=1978|author=Armistead Maupin|title=Tales of the City|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine Books|chapter=… and many happy returns|page=76|url=https://archive.org/details/talesofcity00armi
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).
{{quote-book|en|year=1672|author=Edward Ravenscroft|title=The Citizen Turn’d Gentleman|location=London|publisher=Thomas Dring|section=act I, scene 1|page=4|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51115.0001.001
{{quote-text|en|year=1924|author=Ford Madox Ford|title=Some Do Not ...|location=New York|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|section=Part 2, Chapter 2|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20140712/html.php
1938, (w), New York: Scribner, Chapter(nbs)17,https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20171116/html.php
- He would hunch his twisted body close and put out his gentle and crooked hand and touch the fawn.
{{quote-text|en|year=1939|author=John Steinbeck|title=The Grapes of Wrath|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215897|chapter=10|page=142|publisher=Viking|year_published=1958|location=New York
To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
{{quote-book|en|year=1955|author=J. P. Donleavy|title=The Ginger Man|location=New York|publisher=Dell|chapter=2|page=9|url=https://archive.org/details/gingerman00donl
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/isingbodyelectri00brad|page=57|publisher=Knopf|location=New York
1983, (w), ''(w),'' Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter(nbs)18,https://books.google.ca/books?id=1nKJwiXe_uEC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
- (..) wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room.
To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=R. Bentley and M. Magnes|section=act I|page=6|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36657.0001.001
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
(quote-book)|title=(w) of (w)|location=London|publisher=H. Herringman|chapter=The Sixth Vision of Hell|pages=182–183|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56893.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1748|author=Samuel Richardson|title=Clarissa|location=London|section=Volume 2, Letter 1, p. 8|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004835420.0001.002
{{quote-text|en|year=1899|author=Sutton E. Griggs|title=Imperium in Imperio|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15454/pg15454-images.html|chapter=6
{{quote-text|en|year=1974|author=Maya Angelou|title=Gather Together in My Name|url=https://archive.org/details/gathertogetherinangerich|chapter=12|page=40|publisher=Bantam|year_published=1975|location=New York
{{quote-book|en|year=1986|author=Billy Roche|title=Tumbling Down|location=Dublin|publisher=Wolfhound Press|year_published=1994|chapter=6|pages=102–103|url=https://archive.org/details/tumblingdown00roch
To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
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