Definitions for humpbacked

humpbacked hump·backed

Spelling: [huhmp-bakt]
IPA: /ˈhʌmpˌbækt/

Humpbacked is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 26 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 447 anagrams from letters in humpbacked (abcdehkmpu).

Definitions for humpbacked

adjective

  1. having a hump on the back.

Origin of humpbacked

1675-85; blend of huckbacked (huck haunch + backed) and crumpbacked (Old English crump crooked + backed)

Examples for humpbacked

Mr. Tutt indorsed it in his strange, humpbacked chirography.

Some of them were humpbacked, like Evan, the one who had carried the message to the tower.

All humpbacked persons are contemptuous; all crooked noses wrinkle with disdain when they see a straight one.

With these words, the humpbacked jailer ran off to the wine-shop.

But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked, and crabbed dwarf.

To cure a humpbacked man of his hump we should have to take his life.

Massachusetts; and he is humpbacked, but as bright as can be.

"Martigne," answered the humpbacked jailer, coming forward to the table.

Get a gun and go out and drop that humpbacked old Injy-cracker!

"But he is not humpbacked, Aunt Olympia," said the literal Dora.

Word Value for humpbacked
Scrable

26

Words with friends

30

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