humpty
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of humpty
C20: from humpty hunchbacked, perhaps influenced by Humpty Dumpty (nursery rhyme)
Example Sentences
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One critic of Green Bay CC has seized upon all its humpty dumpty mounds that surround several greens, but to me, they're simply smaller imitations of the broader kettle moraine topography found on that site.
From Golf Digest • Jan. 9, 2018
This would be less dramatic, less shattering for the Conservatives - but the big question, as a former cabinet minister put it, would be "how to put humpty back together again?"
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2016
But, as Boehner also said on Fox on Sunday, it is “hard to put humpty dumpty back together again.”
From Time • Jul. 26, 2011
In 1996, when he was top scorer, he played a gem of an innings on a spiteful Eden Gardens pitch before everyone else went humpty dumpty in the semi-final.
From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2010
Oberon, the Fay, king of Mommur, a humpty dwarf, three feet high, of angelic face.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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