hump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: humps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: humps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: humping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: humped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: humped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mound of earth.
pos: noun
gloss: A speed bump or speed hump.
pos: noun
gloss: A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
pos: noun
examples: Fat, melted down from the hump of the camel, is suggested in an Oriental manual as an aphrodisiac aid.
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: A bad mood.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
with-definite-article
examples: She's got the hump with me.
Go away! You're giving me the right hump.
gloss: A painfully boorish person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That guy is such a hump!
gloss: A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
pos: noun
gloss: To bend something into a hump.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.
gloss: To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
gloss: To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Stop humping the table, you sicko.
gloss: To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
vulgar
gloss: To exert oneself; to make an effort.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: Lessons are keeping me humping now, and will probably do so all summer.
gloss: To vex or annoy.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
gloss: To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
pos: verb
examples: In the first phase of the new yard's operation, from March 6 last, it was wisely decided to restrict the yard's use to allow for any "teething" ailments with complex electronic gadgets, so when I visited Margam early in May it was working well below its capacity, humping about 1,000 wagons a day; […].
gloss: To botch or spoil.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: "Why, sir," said one patterer, "I've gone out with a mate to work a litany, and he's humped it in no time." To 'hump,' in street parlance, is equivalent to 'botch,' in more genteel colloquialism.
Synonyms: shoulder
tote
trek
walk
bone
ride
shag
copulate with
irk
rile
hike
Derived words: buffalo hump
bust one's hump
Calcutta hump
dowager's hump
get one's hump up
Hampton hump
Hampton's hump
Harrington hump
have one's hump up
hummock
humpable
humpathon
humpback
humpbacked
hump-backed
hump day
hump dumpling
humpee
humpity
humpless
humplike
hump-nosed
hump slug
humpsore
humpy
hump yard
hunk
lowlands hump-nosed pit viper
over the hump
road hump
shrump
speed hump
superhump
hump and dump
dry-hump
hump it
hump someone's brains out
jump hump
monkey humping a football
monkeys humping a football
wall humping
Translations:
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: jukka
lang: Spanish
word: montar
lang: Swedish
word: jucka