hunch
US: /ˈhəntʃ/
UK: /hˈʌntʃ/
UK: /hˈʌntʃ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
hunch /'hʌntʃ/
- danh từ
- cái bướu
- miếng to, khúc to, khoanh to (bánh mì, bánh ngọt)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) linh cảm
- to have a hunch that: có linh cảm rằng
- ngoại động từ
- khom xuống, gập cong, uốn cong
- to hunch up (out)
- làm thành gù; gù
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb [+adv./prep.] to bend the top part of your body forward and raise your shoulders and back: [V] She leaned forward, hunching over the desk. + [VN] He hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets.
hunched adjective: a hunched figure + He sat hunched over his breakfast.
+ noun
a feeling that sth is true even though you do not have any evidence to prove it: It seemed that the doctor's hunch had been right. + My hunch is that the burglars are still in the area. + I had a hunch (that) you'd be back. + to follow / back your hunches
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 (intuitive) guess, intuition, feeling, impression, suspicion, premonition, presentiment:
I had a hunch they would be late.
2 See hump, 1.
v.
3 See hump, 2.
hungern.
1 hungriness, emptiness, appetite, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity; famine, starvation:
We ate leaves to stave off the pangs of hunger. Some optimists hope to eliminate hunger from the planet by the year 2000
2 yearning, desire, craving, itch, thirst, longing, hankering, mania, cupidity, Formal cacoethes, Colloq yen:
She felt an insatiable hunger for intellectual companionship.
v.
3 Usually, hunger for or after. crave, yearn, desire, thirst, want, hanker, Colloq yen, have a yen:
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Collocation dictionary
VERB + HUNCH
have
I had a hunch that she was not telling the truth.
| act on, follow, play
Acting on a hunch, I waited outside her house to see if she went out. I decided to follow my hunch and come and see you.
| back, confirm
They now have a database of information to back their hunches about customers' preferences.
PREP.
on a ~
I phoned on a hunch to ask if they had any work for me.
Concise English dictionary
hunches|hunched|hunchinghʌntʃ
noun
+an impression that something might be the case
+the act of bending yourself up together
verb
+arch one's back
