hunch

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an intuitive feeling or guess; also, to arch the back forward

   I had a hunch the train would be late, and I was right.

Of uncertain origin, first recorded in the 16th century meaning 'to push, shove'; the sense 'intuitive feeling' (American, 19th c.) may derive from the gambler's notion of a push toward luck.

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