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humpty dumpty

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humpty dumpty [ˈhʌmptɪ ˈdʌmptɪ]
n Chiefly Brit
1. a short fat person
2. a person or thing that once overthrown or broken cannot be restored or mended
[after the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty]
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Noun1.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 - 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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Byline: Coleen Nolan The kids' channel CBeebies has changed the last line of Humpty Dumpty from "couldn't put Humpty together again" to "made Humpty happy again".
Getting the Hump by The Mirror (London, England)
Byline: ANI London, Oct 19 (ANI): The BBC has come under fire after rewriting nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty and giving it a happy ending.
BBC under fire for rewriting nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty by Asian News International
Byline: K M C VARIATIONS ON A CHILDHOOD THEME: PART ONE HUMPTY DUMPTY wore a straw hat, Which always made his face look fat.
Daily Poem by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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