hunch

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hunch/hʌntʃ/

▶verb raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward.

■ sit or stand in such a position.

▶noun

• 1 a feeling or guess based on intuition.

• 2 dialect a thick piece.

– origin C15 (orig. in the sense ‘push, shove’): of unknown origin.