Having a hunchback or humped back; stooped or curved in the spinal region.
From bunch plus backed, creating a descriptive compound. Older term from medical or folk language describing posture or deformity.
'Bunchbacked' is an archaic way to describe kyphosis—it shows how ordinary people created vivid descriptive words before medical terminology existed, using visual metaphors instead of Latin roots.
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