ภาษาอังกฤษวันละคำ : hunch

The noun hunch refers an idea which is based on feeling and for which there is no proof. ...

• Mr The device works on the users’ hunch, similar to a wood stick that people used to detect dead bodies buried in a cemetery.’’
• I have a hunch that some of the stolen items may have come from her jewellery box,” he said.
• Evy Darwin reasoned this eruption of life forms could not have occurred without previous evolution, but no fossils emerged during his lifetime to confirm his hunch.
• Yutaka Meijo, a blind eighteen-year-old, holds his breath to make sure his camera stays steady, carefully brings the object into focus and waits just a moment before clicking the shutter – and relying only on his ears and a hunch. ...

(From Bangkok Post)