hump

See also: Hump

English

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /hʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology

Probably a borrowing 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-, *kumbʰ- (“curved”).

Cognates

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.

Noun

hump (plural humps)

1. A mound of earth.
2. A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
3. A speed hump.
4. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
5. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (Britain, slang) A bad mood.

   get the hump, have the hump, take the hump., give someone the hump.

7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.

   That guy is such a hump!

Synonyms

• (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

Translations

mound of earth

• Finnish: keko (fi), kasa (fi)
• French: bosse (fr) f
• German: Hügel (de) m
• Greek: τούμπα, μαγούλα f (toúmpa, magoúla)
• Hungarian: domb (hu), dombocska (hu)

• Italian: bozzo m
• Portuguese: monte (pt) m, montículo (pt) m
• Russian: буго́р (ru) m (bugór)
• Serbo-Croatian: humak (sh) m, humka (sh) f
• Swedish: kulle (sv)

rounded fleshy mass

• Armenian: սապատ (hy) (sapat)
• Bulgarian: гърбица f (gǎrbica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kyttyrä
• French: bosse (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Höcker (de) m
• Greek: ύβος (el) m (ývos), καμπούρα (el) f (kampoúra)
• Hungarian: púp (hu)
• Italian: gobba (it) f, gibbo m
• Maori: hiwi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pukkel (no) m

  Nynorsk: pukkel m

• Polish: garb (pl) m
• Portuguese: corcova (pt) f
• Romanian: cocoașă (ro) f
• Russian: горб (ru) m (gorb)
• Serbo-Croatian: kvrga (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: horb m

• Spanish: joroba (es) f, giba (es) f
• Swahili: nundu (sw)
• Swedish: puckel (sv) c
• Turkish: hörgüç (tr)
• Volapük: gobad (vo)

deformity of the human back

• Albanian: gungë (sq) f
• Armenian: կուզ (hy) (kuz)
• Catalan: gep (ca) m
• Czech: hrb (cs) m
• Finnish: kyttyrä
• French: bosse (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Buckel (de) m, Höcker (de) m
• Greek: καμπούρα (el) f (kampoúra)
• Hungarian: púp (hu), kinövés (hu)
• Ido: gibozeso (io)
• Italian: gobba (it) f
• Japanese: こぶ (ja) (kobu), 瘤 (ja) (kobu)
• Korean: 곱사 (gobsa, gopsa)
• Latin: gibbus
• Norwegian: kulrygg m

  Bokmål: pukkel (no) m

  Nynorsk: pukkel m

• Persian: غوز‎ (quz), گوژ‎ (fa) (guž)
• Polish: garb (pl) m
• Portuguese: corcunda (pt) f
• Romanian: cocoașă (ro) f
• Russian: горб (ru) m (gorb)
• Serbo-Croatian: grba (sh) f
• Sicilian: immu m, f
• Slovak: hrb (sk) m
• Slovene: grba (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: horb m

• Spanish: joroba (es) f, corcova (es) f
• Swedish: puckel (sv) c
• Telugu: గూని (te) (gūni)
• Turkish: kambur (tr)
• Vietnamese: bướu (vi)

act of sexual intercourse

• Finnish: pano (fi)
• French: sauterie (fr) f

• Portuguese: trepada (pt) f
• Russian: совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije), перепихо́н m (perepixón) (slang)

bad mood

• Finnish: kyttyrä
• French: cafard (fr) f

• Italian: paturnie (it)
• Portuguese: mau humor m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} gobba f
• Korean: 더미 (deomi) (for earth), 혹 (hog, hok) (for flesh)

• Slovak: kopec m (1), hrb m (2), suchár m (5)
• Telugu: మూపురం (moopuraM) (2)

See also

• over the hump
• hump day
• speed hump

Verb

hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)

1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
   • Theodore Roosevelt

     The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.

   Stop humping the table, you sicko.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

Derived terms

• dry-hump
• hump it

Translations

transitive: to bend something into a hump

• Finnish: taivuttaa (fi)

• French: arrondir (fr)

transitive, slang: to carry something, especially with some exertion

• Finnish: raahata (fi)
• French: trimballer (fr)

• Japanese: なんとかして運ぶ (nantoka shite hakobu)
• Maori: hōpeke (on one's back)

transitive, slang: to have sex with

• Finnish: köyriä (fi)
• French: sauter (fr)
• German: bumsen (de)
• Hungarian: megdug

• Norwegian: jokke (no)
• Portuguese: trepar (pt)
• Russian: тра́хать (ru) (tráxatʹ)
• Spanish: (Mexico, slang) cochar

intransitive, slang: to carry, especially with some exertion

• Finnish: raahata (fi)
• French: trimballer (fr)

• Japanese: なんとかして運ぶ (nantoka shite hakobu)
• Spanish: (Mexico, slang) cochar

intransitive, slang: to have sex

• Finnish: köyriä (fi)
• French: (slang) baiser (fr)
• German: bumsen (de)
• Hungarian: dug (hu)

• Norwegian: jokke (no)
• Portuguese: trepar (pt)
• Russian: трахаться (ru) (traxatʹsja)

Anagrams

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