hump

See also: Hump

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (“curved”). Compare Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-, *ḱewb- (unnasalised root), and English hub (a softened variant without nasal?).

Cognate with West Frisian hompe (“lump, chunk”), Icelandic huppur (“flank”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow”), Latin incumbō (“to lie down”), Albanian sumbull (“round button, bud”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”), Avestan 𐬑𐬎𐬨𐬠𐬀 (xumba, “pot”), Sanskrit कुम्ब (kúmba, “thick end of bone”). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, Old English crump (“crooked, bent”). More at cramp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hʌmp/, [hɐmp]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Camels have humps on their backs.

Noun

hump (plural humps)

1. A mound of earth.
2. A speed bump or speed hump.
3. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
4. (US, animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.

   Synonym: bulge

5. (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.

   She's got the hump with me.

   Go away! You're giving me the right hump.

7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.

   That guy is such a hump!

8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

Synonyms

• (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

Derived terms

• buffalo hump
• bust one's hump
• Calcutta hump
• dowager's hump
• get one's hump up
• Hampton hump
• Hampton's hump
• Harrington hump
• have one's hump up
• hump and dump
• humpback
• hump day
• hump dumpling
• hump slug
• hump yard
• lowlands hump-nosed pit viper
• over the hump
• road hump
• speed hump

 

Translations

mound of earth

• Bulgarian: хълм (bg) m (hǎlm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 峰 (zh) (fēng), 丘陵 (zh) (qiūlíng)

• Finnish: keko (fi), kasa (fi)
• French: bosse (fr) f
• German: Hügel (de) m
• Greek: τούμπα, μαγούλα f (toúmpa, magoúla)
• Hungarian: domb (hu), dombocska (hu)
• Italian: bozzo m
• Portuguese: monte (pt) m, montículo (pt) m
• Russian: буго́р (ru) m (bugór), холм (ru) m (xolm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: humak (sh) m, humka (sh) f

• Sicilian: munzeḍḍu m
• Swedish: kulle (sv)

deformity of the human back

• Albanian: gungë (sq) f
• Arabic: سَنَام (ar) m (sanām)
• Armenian: կուզ (hy) (kuz)
• Assamese: কুঁজ (kũz)
• Azerbaijani: donqa
• Belarusian: горб m (horb)
• Bengali: কুঁজ (bn) (kũj)
• Bulgarian: гъ́рбица f (gǎ́rbica)
• Burmese: လပို့ (my) (la.pui.)
• Catalan: gep (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駝背 / 驼背 (zh) (tuóbèi)

• Czech: hrb (cs) m
• Danish: pukkel c
• Dutch: bult (nl) m, bochel (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĝibo
• Even: бөкчэкун (ʙökcəkun)
• Finnish: kyttyrä (fi)
• French: bosse (fr) f
• Georgian: კუზი (ḳuzi)
• German: Buckel (de) m
• Greek: καμπούρα (el) f (kampoúra)
• Hebrew: גַּבְנוּן m (gavnún), חֲטוֹטֶרֶת (he) f (ẖatotéret)
• Hindi: कूबड़ (hi) (kūbaṛ)
• Hungarian: púp (hu), kinövés (hu)
• Ido: gibozeso (io)
• Indonesian: bungkuk (id)
• Italian: gobba (it) f
• Japanese: 瘤 (ja) (こぶ, kobu)
• Javanese: wungkuk (jv)
• Kazakh: бүкір (bükır), дөңес (döñes)
• Khmer: បូក (km) (bouk)
• Korean: 곱사 (gopsa), 곱사등 (gopsadeung)
• Kyrgyz: бүкүр (ky) (bükür)
• Lao: ໜອກ (lo) (nǭk), ອອງ (ʼǭng)
• Latin: gibbus m, gibber m
• Latvian: kupris
• Lithuanian: kupra
• Lombard: göba f, gœuba f
• Macedonian: грб m (grb), грпка f (grpka)
• Malay: bonggol (ms)
• Malayalam: കൂന് (ml) (kūnŭ)
• Mongolian: бөх (mn) (böx)
• Nanai: букун (bukun)
• Norwegian: kulrygg m

  Bokmål: pukkel (no) m

  Nynorsk: pukkel m

• Occitan: giba (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: гръбъ m (grŭbŭ)

• Old East Slavic: гръбъ m (grŭbŭ)
• Old English: hofor m
• Old Javanese: wungkuk
• Persian: غوز (ğuz), گوژ (fa) (guž)
• Polish: garb (pl) m
• Portuguese: corcunda (pt) f
• Romanian: cocoașă (ro) f
• Russian: горб (ru) m (gorb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гр̏ба f

  Roman: gȑba (sh) f

• Sicilian: jimmu (scn) m
• Slovak: hrb (sk) m
• Slovene: gŕba (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gjarb m

  Upper Sorbian: horb m

• Spanish: joroba (es) f, corcova (es) f
• Swedish: puckel (sv) c
• Tajik: кӯз (küz), кӯж (küž)
• Telugu: గూని (te) (gūni)
• Thai: หนอก (th) (nɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: kambur (tr)
• Ukrainian: горб m (horb)
• Urdu: کوبڑ (kūbaṛ)
• Uzbek: bukur (uz)
• Venetan: gòba f
• Vietnamese: bướu (vi)

rounded fleshy mass as in camel's back

• Arabic: حَدَبَة f (ḥadaba), سَنَام (ar) m (sanām)
• Armenian: սապատ (hy) (sapat)
• Assamese: কুঁজ (kũz), চুট (sut)
• Bashkir: үркәс (ürkəs)
• Belarusian: горб m (horb)
• Bulgarian: гърбица f (gǎrbica)
• Burmese: လပို့ (my) (la.pui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駝背 / 驼背 (zh) (tuóbèi), 駝峰 / 驼峰 (zh) (tuófēng), 峰 (zh) (fēng), 瘤 (zh) (liú)

• Dutch: bult (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĝibo
• Finnish: kyttyrä (fi)
• French: bosse (fr) f
• Georgian: კუზი (ḳuzi)
• German: Höcker (de) m
• Greek: ύβος (el) m (ývos), καμπούρα (el) f (kampoúra)
• Hausa: tozo (ha)
• Hebrew: דַּבֶּשֶׁת (he) f (dabéshet)
• Hindi: कोहान (hi) m (kohān), कूबड़ (hi) m (kūbaṛ), डिल्ला (hi) m (ḍillā), कुब्बा (hi) m (kubbā)
• Hungarian: púp (hu)
• Indonesian: punuk (id)
• Italian: gobba (it) f, gibbo m
• Japanese: こぶ (ja) (kobu)
• Kazakh: өркеш (örkeş)
• Khmer: បូក (km) (bouk)
• Kikuyu: iguku
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆپارە (kopare)

  Northern Kurdish: kopare (ku), hawid, milik (ku)

• Kyrgyz: өркөч (ky) (örköc)
• Ladino: korkova f
• Maori: hiwi
• Mongolian: бөх (mn) (böx)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pukkel (no) m

  Nynorsk: pukkel m

• Old English: hofor m
• Pashto: بوکام m (bokām)
• Persian: کوهان (fa) (kuhân)
• Polish: garb (pl) m
• Portuguese: corcova (pt) f
• Romanian: cocoașă (ro) f
• Russian: горб (ru) m (gorb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: kvrga (sh) f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gjarb m

  Upper Sorbian: horb m

• Spanish: joroba (es) f, giba (es) f
• Swahili: nundu (sw)
• Swedish: puckel (sv) c
• Tatar: өркәч (tt) (örkäç)
• Thai: หนอก (th) (nɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: hörgüç (tr)
• Turkmen: örküç
• Ukrainian: горб m (horb)
• Uyghur: ئوركەچ (orkech)
• Uzbek: oʻrkach (uz)
• Volapük: gobad (vo)

slang: act of sexual intercourse

• Bulgarian: съвокупление n (sǎvokuplenie)
• Finnish: pano (fi)
• French: sauterie (fr) f
• German: Bums m
• Hungarian: dugás (hu), kefélés (hu)
• Portuguese: trepada (pt) f
• Russian: совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije), перепихо́н (ru) m (perepixón) (slang)
• Swedish: ligg (sv) n

bad mood

• Bulgarian: лошо настроение n (lošo nastroenie)
• Finnish: huono tuuli; kyttyrä (fi) (idiomatic, slang)
• French: cafard (fr) f
• Hungarian: lehangoltság (hu), kedvetlenség (hu), rossz kedv
• Italian: paturnie (it)
• Portuguese: mau humor m

slang: painfully boorish person

• Finnish: tylsimys (fi)
• German: Trottel (de) m, Trampel m, Tölpel (de) m

speed bump — see speed bump

wave in front of an operating hovercraft

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} gobba (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 더미 (ko) (deomi) (for earth), ^{(please verify)} 혹 (ko) (hok) (for flesh)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} kopec m (1), ^{(please verify)} suchár m (5)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} మూపురం (te) (mūpuraṁ) (2)

Verb

hump (third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)

1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
   • 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman:

     The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14:

     For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.

3. To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.

      Stop humping the table, you sicko.

   2. (vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
4. (US, slang, dated) To exert oneself; to make an effort.
   • 1917, Hart Crane, letter, in Complete Poems & Selected Letters, Library of America 2006:

     Lessons are keeping me humping now, and will probably do so all summer.

5. (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
6. (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
   • 1960 July, G. Freeman Allen, “Margam yard - the most modern in Europe”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 405, 407:

     In the first phase of the new yard's operation, from March 6 last, it was wisely decided to restrict the yard's use to allow for any "teething" ailments with complex electronic gadgets, so when I visited Margam early in May it was working well below its capacity, humping about 1,000 wagons a day; [...].

Synonyms

• (to carry): heft, shoulder, tote; see also Thesaurus:carry
• (to go on foot): hike, trek, walk; see also Thesaurus:walk
• (to have sex): bang, bone, ride, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to vex): bother, irk, rile; see also Thesaurus:annoy

Derived terms

• dry-hump
• hump and dump
• hump it
• jump hump
• monkey humping a football
• monkeys humping a football
• wall humping

 

Translations

to bend something into a hump

• Bulgarian: изгърбвам (izgǎrbvam)
• Finnish: kyyristää, köyristää (fi), nylkyttää (fi)
• French: arrondir (fr)
• Hungarian: púpossá/görbévé tesz, begörbít (hu)

to carry something, especially with some exertion

• Bulgarian: гърбя (gǎrbja)
• Finnish: raahata (fi), retuuttaa (fi)
• French: trimballer (fr)
• Hungarian: cipel (hu)
• Japanese: なんとかして運ぶ (nantoka shite hakobu)
• Maori: hōpeke (on one's back)
• Spanish: (Mexico, slang) cochar, montarse (es)

to rhythmically thrust the pelvis

• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: jukka

• Swedish: jucka (sv)

to have sex with

• Bulgarian: съвокуплявам се (sǎvokupljavam se) (tr.); чукам (bg) (čukam) (intr.)
• Esperanto: fiki
• Finnish: köyriä (fi)
• French: baiser (fr) (intr., slang); sauter (fr) (tr., slang)
• German: bumsen (de), vögeln (de), poppen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐρείδω (ereídō)

• Hungarian: megdug (hu) (tr.); dug (hu) (intr.), megdönget (hu), kefél (hu)
• Jarai: kơđŭt
• Norwegian: jokke (no)
• Portuguese: trepar (pt)
• Russian: тра́хать (ru) (tráxatʹ) (tr.); трахаться (ru) (traxatʹsja) (intr.)
• Spanish: (Mexico, slang) cochar; montarse (es) (intr.)

Anagrams

• phum, umph

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humper, definite plural humpene)

1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

Derived terms

• fartshump

References

• “hump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly related to Low German humpel, compare with English hump.

Noun

hump m (definite singular humpen, indefinite plural humpar, definite plural humpane)

1. a bump or hump (e.g. in a road)

Derived terms

• fartshump

References

• “hump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

hump c

1. (agriculture) Dialectal (e.g. Östergötland) form of utmark and utäga (“outfield”)

   Klockarehumpen

   The Sexton Outfield