Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hunch
IPA transcription: [h'ʌntʃ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: intuition, hunch, suspicion
    Meaning: an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hunch, hump, hunch_forward, hunch_over
    Meaning: round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
Usage examples
  • I might give you a hunch as to whether you can make the game go or not."
  • It is one of the effects of a successful hunch that it breeds other hunches.
  • He was too busy, had too many worthwhile things to do, to waste time that way ... but the hunch was getting stronger and stronger all the time.
  • "Come along; take a hunch on your cinch straps, a chunk of grub in your pocket; then we're ready to find where the Angel washes his face every morning and night."
  • "I tracked it up where the mountains hunch like the vertebrae of the world; I tracked it down to the death-still pits where the avalanche is hurled; From the glooms to the sacerdotal snows, where the carded clouds are curled.