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Meanings of hunchback in English

Portuguese
giboso
Catalan
cifosi
Spanish
cifosis

An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column.

        giboso
        Usage of hunchback in English
        1
        The hunchback old woman laid the table; we sat down to supper.
        The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
        2
        For a moment I thought you were the ghost of a hunchback.
        Conrad’s Fate
        3
        The thought that I was a hunchback, was always in my mind.
        Veronica
        4
        Without another glance at the hunchback he swung off toward the dressing-tent.
        The Rose in the Ring
        5
        On returning, he set the fish before the hunchback and they ate.
        The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
        6
        The vote was unanimous in favour of the hunchback of Notre Dame.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
        7
        And then the hunchback came to his rescue and inserted a question.
        The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
        8
        He resembled a hunchback about to make the leap of a demon.
        The Light of the Western Stars
        9
        The hunchback Kohn idly leaned against a Catholic church, thinking about existence.
        The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein
        10
        This the hunchback refused, asking instead to be given some fixed employment.
        The Valley of Decision
        11
        Neither by word nor look did the hunchback answer the senator's menaces.
        Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
        12
        Could she have made Apollo a hunchback, it would have delighted her.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        13
        He was talking to a hunchback-a strange-lookingperson with a black beard.
        Vandemark's Folly
        14
        You will be an ancient, white-haired hunchback when you walk out again.
        Death of a Red Heroine
        15
        My father moved as though he would stop the hunchback's cruel speech.
        The Sleuth of St. James's Square
        16
        The hunchback, moreover, became a Tantri, so as to complete his villanies.
        Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic,...
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        Translations for hunchback
        Spanish
        cifosis
        Hunchback through the time
        Hunchback across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common