humpty dumpty

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   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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Questions about humpty dumpty

What does humpty dumpty mean?

humpty dumpty means "an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)".

Is humpty dumpty a common word?

humpty dumpty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.