A person, who is disagreeable or in low spirits may be presumed to go with his shoulders humped. Thence we have probably got the term humpy = despondent, hurt, put out[7], or of things: dull, miserable. To get (to have) the humps is probably a later formation and means about the same: to be despondent, to feel melancholy. It is rather common now-a-days in vulgar > coll. language.

look

»Joe sits down and stares at the old gent, and the old gent looks him back.» (T. T. T. 174. 15.)

A waiter.

= gives him a look back.

The missis, the missus.

»Just as you or me would swear at the missus.» (T. T. T. 128. 15.)

A waiter.

»He came to be pretty friendly with my missus later on.» (T. T. T. 216. 8.)

The same.