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Humpty Dumpty   /hˈəmpti dˈəmpti/   Listen
Humpty Dumpty

noun
1.
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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"Humpty Dumpty" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fox was at the Bowery Theatre, and, during his occupation of the same, he did much to popularise Pantomime. Half a dozen years afterwards we find him at the Olympic Theatre, New York, where he produced "Humpty Dumpty," which ran 483 nights, and for five years, till 1873, it held its place, on and off, in the bill. Altogether it was played 943 times. Fox, from this, was known as Humpty Dumpty, and, strangely enough, also, the Americans for long enough afterwards ...
— A History of Pantomime • R. J. Broadbent


Words linked to "Humpty Dumpty" :   imaginary being, imaginary creature


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