hunch
/hʌn(t)ʃ/
US pronunciation
American sound/hʌn(t)ʃ/
hunch
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- Short u vowel
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US voice -> hunch
Myanmar meaning
(n) ဘို့။အလွှာအချပ်ထူထူ။အတုံးအခဲ။
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စိတ်ထင်။ ထင်မြင်ချက်။ ထင်ကြေး။ play/follow/back one's hunches ❍ ‘How did you know that she was lying?’ ‘It was just/I just had a hunch. ’ ❍ My hunch is that he's already left the country.
v ကုန်းသည်။ ကိုင်းသည်။ He hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets. ❍ She hunched (forward) over the book, reading intently.
❏ hunched adj ~ (forward/over/up) ကိုင်းသော။ ကုန်း သော။ ကုပ်သော။ a hunched figure ❍ hunched over a plate of food ❍ She sat hunched (up) in a corner.
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- hunch /hʌntʃ/ n စိတ်ထင်။ ထင်မြင်ချက်။ ထင်ကြေး။ play/follow/back one's hunches
- ‘How did you know that she was lying?’ ‘It was just/I just had a hunch. ’
- My hunch is that he's already left the country. v ကုန်းသည်။ ကိုင်းသည်။ He hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets.
- She hunched (forward) over the book, reading intently. ❏ hunched adj ~ (forward/over/up) ကိုင်းသော။ ကုန်း သော။ ကုပ်သော။ a hunched figure
- hunched over a plate of food
- She sat hunched (up) in a corner.
Synonyms
guess, feeling, gut feeling, sixth sense, premonition, intuition, instinct, anticipation, apprehension, arch, auguration, augury, bend, bend forward, boding, bow, clue, cower, crouch, curve, draw in, draw together, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, huddle, hump, idea, impression, inkling, lean, lean forward, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, scrooch down, squat, stoop, suspicion, tense, thought
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