humpy
Characterised by humps, uneven.
Adjective
- Characterised by humps, uneven.
- A very weary small boy and a weary father and mother were soon asleep in the hardest and humpiest bed ever made. - 1907, Edith M.H Baylor, A Little Prospector, page 60:
- The cab height was reduced, but the front fenders looked higher and humpier. - 1988, John Gunnell, Chevrolet Pickups, 1946-1972: How to Identify, Select and Restore Chevrolet Collector Light Trucks, Panels and El...
- 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. - 2011,...
- Muscular; hunky.
- 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. - 1981 December 27, Michael Bronski, “Models, Noblemen, and One Hell of...
- 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...
- Hunched, bent over.
- 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...
- Sulky; irritable.
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree English hump English -y English humpy From hump + -y.
Forms
Derived
Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative form of humpie.
- It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and...
- Suzie was so funny, she kept talking about fly-fishing. Mark was so confused. He didn't know a yellow humpy from a black wooly worm. - 1996, Elizabeth Wong, Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy about Getting Along,...
- In 1997, for example, 150 million pink (humpy) salmon returned to the streams in southeast Alaska alone. - 2002, Spike Walker, Coming Back Alive, →ISBN:
- A white perch (Morone americana).
Forms
Noun Australia
- A temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, traditionally used by Aboriginal people.
- It was a new humpy of bark and saplings, quaintly impressive of white man’s defiance of the wild. - 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 79:
- Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy. - 1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics, published 2012, page 31:
- 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. - 1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth,...
- Any crude or temporary dwelling, especially made from found materials; a bush hut.
- 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 […] - 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia, page 29:
- 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...
Origin
From Yagara (Brisbane region) ŋumbi, perhaps influenced by hump.