humpbacked

See also: hunchback

English

Etymology

hump +‎ backed

Adjective

humpbacked (not comparable)

1. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.

   All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.

2. Being a humpback bridge.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch. Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.

Synonyms

• (medical condition): hunchbacked, kyphotic

Derived terms

• humpbacked salmon
• humpbacked elves

Related terms

• humpback

Translations

having a hump on the back

• Arabic: أَحْدَب (ar) m (ʔaḥdab)
• Armenian: կուզ (hy) (kuz), սապատավոր (hy) (sapatavor)
• Assamese: কুঁজা (kũza), উঠঙা-পিঠীয়া (uthoṅa-pithia)
• Bulgarian: гърбав (bg) (gǎrbav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駝背的／驼背的 (zh) (tuóbèi de)

• Czech: hrbatý
• Danish: pukkelrygget
• Finnish: kyttyräselkäinen, koukkuselkäinen
• French: bossu (fr)
• Galician: xiboso, chepudo, curvo
• German: bucklig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κυρτός (kurtós), ὑβός (hubós)

• Hungarian: púpos (hu)
• Ido: giboza (io)
• Japanese: せむしの (ja) (semushi no)
• Latin: gibbus, gibber
• Old English: hofored, ġehofored
• Plautdietsch: pucklich
• Polish: garbaty (pl)
• Portuguese: corcunda (pt) m or f
• Russian: горба́тый (ru) (gorbátyj)
• Scots: hurklin
• Scottish Gaelic: crotach
• Tagalog: hukong
• Telugu: కుబ్జము (kubjamu)
• Ukrainian: горба́тий (horbátyj)

Verb

humpbacked

1. simple past and past participle of humpback