dumpty

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Definition of dumpty in English English dictionary
Humpty Dumpty: A fairy tale character whose name has become synonymous with anything fragile or the existence of which is precarious
Humpty Dumpty: a character in a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children) and in the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, who is like a large egg in shape. The rhyme goes: 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
humpty dumpty: an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
humpty-dumpty: {i} egg shaped figure in a nursery rhyme; person who is short and fat; person who once dethroned cannot be brought back; thing that at the moment that it is overthrown cannot be restored

dumpty

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dʌmpti

/ˈdəmptē/ /ˈdʌmptiː/

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