Word info

dumpty

Adjective

Meaning

dumpty (comparative dumptier, superlative dumptiest)

Alternative form of dumpy

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. Lewis Carroll

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. Henry Louis Gates

Economics is not the Emperor of the social sciences, but the Humpty Dumpty. Steve Keen

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. Lewis Carroll

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg. Ricky Gervais

It has been suggested by A. J. Larner that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise. Source: Internet

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