English
humpy
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈhʌmpi/
Adjective

humpy (comparative humpier, superlative humpiest)

  1. Characterised by humps, uneven.
  2. Muscular; hunky.
  3. Hunched, bent over.
    • 1907, P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel, 2008, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hC1-H-gIa7MC&pg=PA107&dq=%22humpier%22|%22humpiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TiyJT47pG4rKmQXW8fDCCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22humpier%22|%22humpiest%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 107],
      Tell you what it was just like. Reminded me of it even at the time: that picture of Napoleon coming back from Moscow. The Reverend was Napoleon, and we were the generals; and if there were three humpier men walking the streets of London at that moment I should have liked to have seen them.
  4. Sulky; irritable.
Noun

humpy (plural humpies)

  1. Alternative form of humpie#English|humpie
Noun

humpy (plural humpies)

  1. (Australia) A hut or temporary shelter made from bark and tree branches, especially for Aborigines.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter III, p. 29,
      They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]
    • 1961, Nene Gare, The Fringe Dwellers, Text Classics 2012, p. 31:
      Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy.
    • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, 1995, Angus & Robertson, p. 257,
      There weren′t that many blacks about, but a lot of humpies – at times it must have been a fairly big camp.
Synonyms

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