humpy
Having rounded protrusions
Humpy means having humps or bumps—a humpy road, a humpy camel.
Informally, it can describe someone feeling irritable or in a bad mood, probably from the hump in get over your hump.
In Australian English, a humpy is a crude temporary shelter, traditionally an Aboriginal dwelling made from bark and branches.
Small crude dwelling
- shackCrudely built hut
- shelterProtected place or structure
- lean-toSimple sloped shelter
- cabinSimple wooden dwelling
shanty · hovel · ramshackle · crude · rough · makeshift · temporary · improvised
Remote interior wilderness
- AboriginalAustralia's native peoples
- shelterProtected place or structure
- bushMulti-stemmed woody plant
- billabongIsolated river pool
station · stockman · swagman · drover · squatter · pioneer · settler · tin roof
hut
Small crude dwelling
cabin · shanty · hovel · ramshackle · crude · rough · makeshift · temporary · improvised · cobbled
outback
Remote interior wilderness
- AboriginalAustralia's native peoples
- shelterProtected place or structure
- bushMulti-stemmed woody plant
billabong · station · stockman · swagman · drover · squatter · pioneer · settler · tin roof · verandah
bumpy
Uneven in surface
undulating · knobby · ridged · wavy · hunchbacked · hunched · rounded · arched · curved · protuberant
hogan
Native American earth dwelling
tepee · longhouse · wattle-and-daub · grass hut · mud hut · thatched · reed · palm frond · bark · hide
- native sheltersigloo, tipi, tepee, teepee, wigwam
- salmonAtlantic salmon, sockeye, chinook, pink salmon, coho
- salmonidsAtlantic salmon, chinook salmon, coho salmon, king salmon, pink salmon
- bush shelterslean-to, grass hut
- fly fishingfly rod, rainbow trout, brown trout, fly line, fly fishing
- Australianakangaroo, Vegemite, boomerang, koala, didgeridoo
- over the humpBeyond the challenging middle
- Humpty DumptyFragile nursery rhyme figure
- hump dayMidweek slang term
- speed humpsRoad ridges slowing cars
- humpback whaleLarge singing baleen cetacean
- dry humpClothed sexual simulation
hump, humps, humpback, humped, humping, humpbacked, humplike, humpty