HUMPTY DUMPTY


Meaning of HUMPTY DUMPTY in English

1. a large egg-shaped character in a popular nursery rhyme :

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses,

And all the king’s men,

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

2. a large egg-shaped character in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll who has a strange and clever conversation with Alice, ‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.