hunches in English

noun

1

a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts.

she was acting on a hunch

synonyms: feeling, feeling in one's bones, guess, suspicion, impression, conjecture, inkling, idea, sense, notion, fancy, intuition, premonition, presentiment, gut feeling, gut instinct

2

a humped position or thing.

the hunch of his back

synonyms: protuberance, hump, lump, bump, knob, protrusion, prominence, bulge, swelling, growth, outgrowth

3

a thick piece; a hunk.

a hunch of bread

verb

1

raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward.

he thrust his hands in his pockets, hunching his shoulders

synonyms: arch, curve, hump, bend, bow, crouch, huddle, curl, hunker down, bend, stoop, slouch, squat, duck

noun

protuberance, hump, lump, bump, knob, protrusion, prominence, bulge, swelling, growth, outgrowth
feeling, feeling in one's bones, guess, suspicion, impression, conjecture, inkling, idea, sense, notion, fancy, intuition, premonition, presentiment, gut feeling, gut instinct
intuition, suspicion

verb

arch, crouch, hump
arch, curve, hump, bend, bow
crouch, huddle, curl, hunker down, bend, stoop, slouch, squat, duck
hump

Use "hunches" in a sentence

1. Two hunches in one day.

2. Quinlan doesn't have a monopoly on hunches.

3. Bobcat (Lynx rufus) A Bobcat hunches over a recent kill.

4. 12 Trading on rumors, hunches or fears is antithetical to investing.

5. The body tenses, the neck hunches and the eyes close protectively.

6. Foreign policy cannot be conducted on the basis of hunches and innuendo.

7. 12 Westmoreland turns away and hunches over, blood soaking through his jumpsuit.

8. When my son was an infant/young toddler, he would refuse to go to bed unless I read him Hunches in Bunches

9. Yet any individual quite well that intuitive hunches, inspiration, precognitive information or clairvoyant material has often risen to conscious knowledge.

10. Agonizer: spends a lot of time making decisions: mystic: makes decisions based on intuition or "hunches" fatalist: feels that he/she has no control over decisions: evader "ostrich style"--ignores the decision: plunger: makes impulsive decisions: submissive: lets an authority figure make a decision: planner: thoughtful decision maker--uses the