HUMPTY DUMPTY


Meaning of HUMPTY DUMPTY in English

/hump"tee dump"tee/

1. an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.

2. ( sometimes l.c. ) something that has been damaged severely and usually irreparably.

[ rhyming compound based on humpty; see HUMP, -ED 3 , -Y 2 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .