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/ˈhʌmpi/
Adjective
Characterised by humps, uneven.
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A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made.
The cab height was reduced, but the front fenders looked higher and humpier.
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The sand dollars adjust the gaps between individuals depending on flow speed, and populations from more sheltered locations consist of slightly humpier (more cambered) individuals with greater lift coefficients.
Muscular; hunky.
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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.
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On a Friday night, Tom went upstairs to the second-floor show bar at the club to see the final show, and decided that Oscar had really underpraised the dancers – as each one entered, he appeared to be even humpier and better-hung than the ones before.
Hunched, bent over.
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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.
Sulky; irritable.
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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.
Noun
A white perch (Morone americana).
Noun
A temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, traditionally used by Aboriginal people.
Usage- Australia
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It was a new humpy of bark and saplings, quaintly impressive of white man’s defiance of the wild.
Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy.
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I dreamed that a boy child walked past all the other humpies [Australian white term for native huts] in the camp and kept coming until he got to my house. He beat on the bark wall.
There weren′t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp.
Any crude or temporary dwelling, especially made from found materials; a bush hut.
Usage- Australia
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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 […]
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Evicted men and their families lived wherever they could, and shanty towns of hessian-sack humpies grew up in Sydney′s southern suburbs on vacant crown land: the largest being at Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Long Bay and La Perouse. In such camps, unemployed huddled for warmth in humpies while, closer to the city, others squatted in caves in the Domain around the local beauty spot known as Mrs Macquarie′s chair.