hump

See also: Hump

English

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /hʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology

Probably 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, Albanian sumbull (“round button, bud”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”), Avestan [script needed] (xumba, “pot”) [script needed], 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. (UK, slang) A bad mood.

   get the hump, have the hump, take 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 m, montículo m
• Russian: бугор (ru) m (bugor)
• Serbo-Croatian: humak (sh) m, humka (sh) f
• Swedish: kulle (sv)

rounded fleshy mass

• Armenian: սապատ (sapat)
• Bulgarian: гърбица f (gǎrbica)
• Finnish: kyttyrä
• French: bosse (fr) f
• German: Höcker (de) m
• Greek: ύβος (el) m (ývos), καμπούρα (el) f (kampoúra)
• Hungarian: púp (hu)
• Italian: gobba (it) f, gibbo m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pukkel (no) m

  Nynorsk: pukkel m

• Polish: garb (pl) m
• Portuguese: corcova (pt) f
• Russian: горб (ru) m (gorb)
• Serbo-Croatian: kvrga (sh) f
• Swahili: nundu (sw)
• Swedish: puckel (sv) c
• Turkish: hörgüç (tr)
• Volapük: gobad (vo)

deformity of the human back

• Albanian: gungë f
• Armenian: կուզ (kuz)
• Catalan: gep 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 (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 f
• Sicilian: immu m , f
• Slovak: hrb (sk) m
• Slovene: grba (sl) f
• 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: совокупление (ru) n (sovokuplénije), перепихон m (perepixón) (slang)

bad mood

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

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

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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)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} joroba f, ^{(please verify)} giba f
• 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.
2. (transitive, slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
3. (intransitive, slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
5. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
6. (intransitive, slang) To have sex.

Derived terms

• dry-hump

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)

transitive, slang: to have sex with

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

• Norwegian: jokke (no)
• Portuguese: trepar (pt)
• Russian: трахать (ru) (traxatʹ)
• 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
• French: (slang) baiser (fr)
• German: bumsen (de)
• Hungarian: dug (hu)

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