camelbacked

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adjective

Having a back like a camel's; humpbacked.

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Meanings

adjectivecamelbacked (comparative more camelbacked, superlative most camelbacked)

comparative more camelbacked · superlative most camelbacked

  1. Having a back like a camel's; humpbacked.

    With Edward [I of England] went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaſter, ſurnamed Crouch-back; not that he was crook-ſhouldered, or camel-backed: […] but from the Croſſe, anciently called a Crouch (whence Crouched Friars) which now he wore in his voyage to Jeruſalem.

    1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Tartarians Alienated from the Christians; Bendocdar Tyrannizeth over Them, and Lewis King of France Setteth Forth again for to Succour Them”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 215

Origin

From camel + backed.

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APA

camelbacked. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/camelbacked

MLA

“camelbacked.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/camelbacked. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “camelbacked,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/camelbacked.

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