Humpty Dumpty

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humpty dumpty

(ˈhʌmptɪ ˈdʌmptɪ)

1. a short fat person

2. a person or thing that once overthrown or broken cannot be restored or mended

[C18: after the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty]

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Hump•ty Dump•ty

(ˈhʌmp ti ˈdʌmp ti)
n., pl. Humpty Dump•ties.

an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put together again.

[1780–90; rhyming compound based on hump and dump]

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Humpty Dumpty - an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)

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