Hump vs Hobble - What's the difference?
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A mound of earth.
A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
A speed hump.
(rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
(British, slang) A bad mood.
(slang) A painfully boorish person.
To bend something into a hump.
(slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
(slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
(intransitive) To dry-hump.
(slang) To have sex with.
(slang) To have sex.
(en noun) (usually in plural )
Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
An unsteady, off-balance step.
To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
To walk lame, or unevenly.
* Dryden
(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
* Jeffreys
To perplex; to embarrass.
Hump is a related term of hobble.
As a proper noun hump
is the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.As a noun hobble is
short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.As a verb hobble is
to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.hump
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Noun
(wikipedia hump) (en noun)- get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
- That guy is such a hump !
Synonyms
* (abnormal deformity of the spine) gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchbackSee also
* over the hump * hump day * speed humpVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* dry-humphobble
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Noun
Synonyms
* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.