Hump vs Straggle - 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.
To stray from the road, course or line of march.
To wander about; ramble.
* L'Estrange
To spread at irregular intervals.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
* Mortimer
To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Hump is a related term of straggle.
As a proper noun hump
is the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.As a verb straggle is
to stray from the road, course or line of march.As a noun straggle is
the act of straggling.hump
English
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-humpstraggle
English
Verb
(straggl)- He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
- The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
citation, passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
- Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
- straggling pistol shots
- They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.