n. (pl. -ies) 1 a short dumpy person. 2 a person or thing that once overthrown cannot be restored.
[ the nursery rhyme Humpty-Dumpty, perh. ult. f. HUMPY(1), DUMPY ]
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Meaning of HUMPTYDUMPTY in English
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012