Crossword clues for hunchback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hunchback \Hunch"back`\, n. [Cf. Humpback.] A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
âperson with a hunched back,â 1712, back-formation from hunchbacked (1590s; see hunch).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who is stooped or hunched over. 2 A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back. 3 (context vulgar English) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
WordNet
adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic]
Wikipedia
Hunchback is an arcade game developed by Century Electronics in 1983. The player controls Quasimodo from the Victor Hugo novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The game is set on a castle wall. The player must cross the screen from left to right avoiding obstacles in order to ring the bell at the far right. Obstacles include pits which must be swung over on a long rope, ramparts which must be jumped (some of which contain knights with spears) and flying fireballs and arrows (to be ducked or jumped). To impose a time limit on each screen a knight climbs the wall, costing the player a life should he reach the top. Eventually, after completing a number of screens, the player must rescue Esmeralda. If this final screen is completed, the game begins again at a faster speed.
The hunchback character was originally to be Robin Hood, hence the green costume and the game stages with arrows. The artist who drew the Robin Hood character left the company before the decision to change the theme to Hunchback. By the time a new artist was taken on, the green costume had become accepted and no-one questioned it (someone commented that the Robin Hood character, as drawn, looked like a hunchback).
Ports were made for most home computer systems of the time by Ocean Software in 1984. It was their first arcade port. The exceptions to this are the BBC Micro version (which had already been released by Superior Software) and a later port for the MSX (1985). The Spectrum version of the game reached number one in the UK sales charts.
Hunchback is derogatory term for a person who has severe kyphosis.
Hunchback or The Hunchback may also refer to:
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, an 1831 novel written and published by French author Victor Hugo
- Hunchback (video game), an arcade and computer game from 1983
- The Hunchback (1914 film) directed by W. Christy Cabanne and featuring Lillian Gish
- The Hunchback (1997 film) directed by Peter Medak
- The Hunchback (EP), an EP by Kurt Vile & the Violators
- Hunchback gene product, involved in Drosophila embryogenesis
- "The Hunchback", a popular London play written by James Sheridan Knowles in 1832, with Fanny Kemble as Julia
Usage examples of "hunchback".
Lepi, who though a hunchback was very talented and an excellent actress, was sure of exciting desire by the rare beauty of her eyes and teeth, which latter challenged admiration from her enormous mouth by their regularity and whiteness.
The fatal hunchback came the day after his fine supper to thank us and to receive our well-merited praises of his concert, his supper, and the distinction of his guests.
I did not in earnest think him leprous, but boys that age are cruel, and once the Leper became his name among us, to distinguish him from the other monks at St Viktor the Hunchback, the Pig, the Furnace, the Cesspit and the Mole I could not banish the notion.
No introductions took place, and I read the tact of the witty hunchback in the omission, but as all the guests were men used to the manners of the court, that neglect of etiquette did not prevent them from paying every honour to my lovely friend, who received their compliments with that ease and good breeding which are known only in France, and even there only in the highest society, with the exception, however, of a few French provinces in which the nobility, wrongly called good society, shew rather too openly the haughtiness which is characteristic of that class.
He looked past the hunchback, and saw the other two men sprawled gorily in the clearing.
The last words, on which Henriette had laid a little more stress than upon the first part of her answer, struck our little hunchback dumb, and my friend, improving her opportunity, changed the subject of conversation.
This conversation, not devoid of wit, and still more the simplicity of the hunchback, had made me resolve to verify things for myself.
Even Ilka was smiling as we followed the hunchback down, finding him sitting at the foot of the hill staring at his broken bow.
When the path leads through a bog or a stretch of blackened water see Miss Amelia bend down to let Cousin Lymon scramble on her back -- and see her wading forward with the hunchback settled on her shoulders, clinging to her ears or to her broad forehead.
Now, of course, Miss Amelia was a powerful blunderbuss of a person, more than six feet tall -- and Cousin Lymon a weakly little hunchback reaching only to her waist.
The talks of Miss Amelia and Cousin Lymon in the rooms upstairs, usually in the first few hours of the morning when the hunchback could not sleep, were many.
Dubois, the fatal hunchback appointed by destiny, spoke so much of that festival, that we took a fancy to see it.
Towards Fanny, the poor, overstrung hunchback, Clara was unfailingly compassionate and gentle, as a result of which Fanny shed more bitter tears than ever the rough tongues of the other overseers had caused her.
A bullet fired by the hunchback, hit John Winer almost exactly in the middle of the chest.
There was a yell of surprise and pain from below and both laser and hand disappeared, the latter with the splinter still standing up in flesh aquiver from the strength the hunchback had summoned to plant it home.