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hunching

  1. present participle and gerund of hunch

Noun

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hunching (plural hunchings)

  1. The motion by which something is hunched.
    • 1864, George Augustus Sala, John Camden Hotten, Robson: A Sketch:
      [] this little stunted creature, with his hoarse voice and nervous gestures and grotesque delivery, his snarls, his leers, his hunchings of the shoulders, his contortions of the limbs []