humpless.html - See: OVER THE HUMP.

humpless.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a rounded protuberance on the back of a camel etc., or as an abnormality on a person's back.
2 a rounded raised mass of earth etc.
3 a mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity to the required place in a marshalling yard.
4 a critical point in an undertaking, ordeal, etc.
5 (prec. by the) Brit. sl. a fit of depression or vexation (it gives me the hump).

--v.

tr.
1 a (often foll. by about) colloq. lift or carry (heavy objects etc.) with difficulty. b esp. Austral. hoist up, shoulder (one's pack etc.).
2 make hump-shaped.
3 annoy, depress.
4 coarse sl. have sexual intercourse with.

In sense 4 usually considered a taboo word.

hump bridge = humpback bridge. live on one's hump colloq. be self-sufficient. over the hump over the worst; well begun.

humped adj. humpless adj. [17th c.: perh. rel. to LG humpel hump, LG humpe, Du. homp lump, hunk (of bread)]

humpless.html - n.
1 a a deformed back with a hump. b a person having this.
2 a baleen whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, with a dorsal fin forming a hump.

humpback bridge Brit. a small bridge with a steep ascent and descent.

humpbacked adj.

humpless.html - int. & n.
an inarticulate sound expressing doubt or dissatisfaction. [imit.]

humpless.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 a short dumpy person.
2 a person or thing that once overthrown cannot be restored. [the nursery rhyme Humpty-Dumpty, perh. ult. f. HUMPY(1), DUMPY]

humpless.html - adj.
(humpier, humpiest)
1 having a hump or humps.
2 humplike.