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say it: huhnch
hunch is a noun and verb meaning "an impression that something might be the case". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an impression that something might be the case
“he had an intuition that something had gone wrong”
the act of bending yourself into a humped position
round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hunch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.