hunched

Definition of Hunched in English :

having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

Example Sentences:
'a little oldish misshapen stooping woman'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hunched

adjective

(of a person) leaning forwards with their shoulders raised and their head down, or (of shoulders, etc) in the posture adopted by a hunched person

A solitary hunched figure emerged from Number Ten.

He sat hunched in a corner.

Pupils sat hunched over their books.

He got a stiff neck and a sore back from sitting hunched up for so long.

n.

1. An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose.

2. A hump.

3. A lump or chunk: "She ... cut herself another hunch of bread" (Virginia Woolf).

4. A push or shove.

v. hunched, hunch·ing, hunch·es

v.tr.

1. To bend or draw up into a hump: I hunched my shoulders against the wind.

2. To push or shove.

v.intr.

1. To assume a crouched or cramped posture: The cat hunched in a corner.

2. To thrust oneself forward.