camelbacked en · ADJ
Etymology
From camel + backed.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most camelbacked | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more camelbacked | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |