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HUMPTY DUMPTY

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Overview

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)play

  Familiarity information: HUMPTY DUMPTY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


HUMPTY DUMPTY (noun)


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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