Humpy

//ˈhʌmpi// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised by humps, uneven.

    "A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made."

  2. 2
    Muscular; hunky.

    "The artist [Michelangelo] spends most of his time avoiding the Pope's clutches and pursuing his humpy, young models about the city and the studio."

  3. 3
    Hunched, bent over.

    "Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them."

  4. 4
    Sulky; irritable.

    "As the rain poured down; and Frieda went on and on about the children; and Lawrence got humpier and humpier but kept asking ‘a dozen times a day in all keys, are you miserable’ (i. 534); it must have been the Christmas misery all over again."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A nickname:; A nickname for someone with a deformity. derogatory, endearing, sometimes
  2. 2
    A nickname:; A nickname for someone who is very sexually active. humorous
  3. 3
    A nickname:; A diminutive of the male given names Humphrey or Humphry.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of humpie. alt-of, alternative

    "It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and shipped to restaurants and supermarkets half a world away."

  2. 2
    A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, traditionally used by Aboriginal people. Australia

    "Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy."

  3. 3
    A white perch (Morone americana).
  4. 4
    Any crude or temporary dwelling, especially made from found materials; a bush hut. Australia

    "They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hump + -y.

Etymology 2

From hump + -y.

Etymology 3

From Yagara (Brisbane region) ŋumbi, perhaps influenced by hump.

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