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Humpy   Listen
adjective
Humpy  adj.  Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Humpy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Marmaduke on the homeward way. His orders were to use all speed, to do as he had done at the lawyer's private door, and then, without baiting his horse, to drive back, reserving the nose-bag for some very humpy halting-place. There is no such man, at the present time of day, to carry out strict orders, as the dogman was, and the chance of there being such a one again diminishes by very rapid process. Marmaduke, as a horse, was of equal quality, reasoning not about his orders, ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... just wanted to see how humpy and mean I look. Thought I was as ugly as a bullfrog, I s'pose. ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson

... his little pointed nose and his long whiskers, his little round ears and his bright eyes. Out came his little humpy body and his long tail. And then he sat up on his hind legs, and curled his tail twice round himself and looked at the ...
— Old Peter's Russian Tales • Arthur Ransome

... hundred yards down the hollow, a number of large black animals, not unlike the shaggy, humpy buffalo, lumbered over the snow. Jones echoed Rea's yell, and broke into a run, ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey

... crackers, all sorts of instruments, and "Auld Lang Syne" in one mighty chorus. And now—a wretched little pastoral town; a collection of glaring corrugated-iron hip-roofs, and maybe a rotting propped-up bark or weather-board humpy or two—relics of the roaring days; a dried-up storekeeper and some withered hags; a waste of caved-in holes with rain-washed mullock heaps and quartz and gravel glaring in the sun; thistles and burrs where old bars were; drought, ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson



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