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huncher

noun

Etymology

From hunch + -er.

  1. derived from *kewb-✻
  2. derived from *kumb-✻
  3. derived from *humpaz✻
  4. derived from *hump✻
  5. borrowed from hump — “heap, hill, stump”
  6. borrowed from homp — “hump, lump”
  7. formed as hunch — “hump + -kin”
  8. suffixed as huncher — “hunch + er”

Definitions

  1. One who hunches or slouches over.

  2. One who has hunches, or makes intuitive guesses.

    • People who are instinctive hunchers go through some such process at every decision-making point of their lives. It is likely that children often make decisions and discern truths by hunching.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for huncher. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA