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HUMPTY DUMPTY
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• HUMPTY DUMPTY (noun)
The noun HUMPTY DUMPTY has 1 sense:
1. an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
Familiarity information: HUMPTY DUMPTY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
An egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)
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