[syn: humpback, hunchback, crookback]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hunchback \Hunch"back`\, n. [Cf. Humpback.]
A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hunchback
n 1: an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column [syn:
kyphosis, humpback, hunchback]
2: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature
of the upper spine [syn: humpback, hunchback,
crookback]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "hunchback":
bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, defacement,
deformation, deformity, disfigurement, flatfoot, freakishness,
harelip, humpback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation,
malformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, mutilation,
splayfoot, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis, truncation,
valgus, wryneck