Associations to the word «Hunchback»

Wiktionary

HUNCHBACK, noun. One who is stooped or hunched over.
HUNCHBACK, noun. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
HUNCHBACK, noun. (vulgar) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.

Dictionary definition

HUNCHBACK, noun. An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column.
HUNCHBACK, noun. A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats