English-French translations for hunch

• accroupir
• baisser
• bosse
• idée
• intuition
  C'est mon intuition, en tout cas, Monsieur Schulz. That is my hunch, anyway, Mr Schulz.
• pressentiment
  Nous ne pouvons pas mettre en cause des pays entiers simplement sur des conjectures, des suspicions, des présomptions et des pressentiments. We cannot build up an indictment against whole countries based simply on conjecture, suspicion, circumstantial evidence or hunches.
• recroqueviller
• se voûter

Definition of hunch

• A hump; a protuberance
• A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen
• A hunk; a lump; a thick piece
• A push or thrust, as with the elbow
• To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders
• To raise ; to curve forward (''sometimes followed by'up
• To walk while hunching one's shoulders
• To thrust a hump or protuberance out of ; to crook, as the back
• To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone
• To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess

Examples

• The old man walked with a hunch.
• I have a hunch theyll find a way to solve the problem.
• a hunch of bread
• Dont hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems
• They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes
• He hunched up his shoulders and stared down at the ground

Related words

• hunchback
• hunched
• hunchbacked
• hunchy
• hunched bowed