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Humpty Dumpty   /hˈəmpti dˈəmpti/   Listen
Humpty Dumpty

noun
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).





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"Humpty Dumpty" Quotes from Famous Books



... position of modern nonsense. His Wonderland is a country populated by insane mathematicians. We feel the whole is an escape into a world of masquerade; we feel that if we could pierce their disguises, we might discover that Humpty Dumpty and the March Hare were Professors and Doctors of Divinity enjoying a mental holiday. This sense of escape is certainly less emphatic in Edward Lear, because of the completeness of his citizenship in the world of unreason. We do not know his prosaic biography as we know Lewis Carroll's. ...
— The Defendant • G.K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Humpty Dumpty" :   imaginary being, imaginary creature


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