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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.

• HUMPTY DUMPTY (noun)

Sense 1

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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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