Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA hunch, hump (on the back). · A thick slice, hunk.
From Middle English *hulch, from Old English hylċ, related to Old English holc (“hollow, cavity”). Compare holk, hunch.
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