hump: [18] Hump seems to have originated among the Low German dialects of North Germany and the Low Countries – Dutch, for instance, has the probably related homp ‘lump’. It first appeared in English towards the end of the 17th century in the compound hump-backed, but by the first decade of the 18th century it was being used on its own. (Another theory is that it arose from a blend of the now obsolete crumpbacked with hunchbacked [16], whose hunch- is of unknown origin.)
hump (n.)
1680s (in hump-backed), from Dutch homp "lump," from Middle Low German hump "bump," from Proto-Germanic *hump-, from PIE *kemb- "to bend, turn, change, exchange." Replaced, or perhaps influenced by, crump, from Old English crump. A meaning attested from 1901 is "mound in a railway yard over which cars must be pushed," which may be behind the figurative sense of "critical point of an undertaking" (1914). Humpback whale is from 1725.
hump (v.)
"to do the sex act with," attested from 1785, but the source of this indicates it is an older word. Meaning "to raise into a hump" is from 1840. Related: Humped; humping.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Fans just get the hump when they lose.
如果他們輸了，球迷便會(huì)很惱火。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. the dark hump of the mountain in the distance
遠(yuǎn)處高大的黑魆魆的山
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. She gets the hump when people don't listen to her.
別人不聽(tīng)她的話時(shí),她總是很生氣.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
4. He made her hump.
他使她奮發(fā).
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
5. The path goes over a large hump by a tree before running near a road.