Usually means: Nursery rhyme character, egg-shaped.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word Humpty Dumpty:

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  1. humpty-dumpty: Merriam-Webster
  2. Humpty Dumpty, humpty dumpty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humpty dumpty: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Humpty Dumpty: Vocabulary.com
  5. Humpty-Dumpty, Humpty Dumpty: Wordnik
  6. Humpty Dumpty: Wiktionary
  7. Humpty Dumpty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Humpty Dumpty: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Humpty Dumpty, Humpty-dumpty: Dictionary.com
  10. Humpty-dumpty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Humpty Dumpty (House), Humpty Dumpty (Shrek), Humpty Dumpty (comics), Humpty Dumpty (disambiguation), Humpty Dumpty (magazine), Humpty Dumpty (pinball), Humpty Dumpty, Humpty dumpty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Humpty dumpty: Rhymezone
  13. HUMPTY-DUMPTY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  14. Humpty Dumpty: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. humpty dumpty: FreeDictionary.org
  16. humpty dumpty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. humpty dumpty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. humpty dumpty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Humpty Dumpty: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Humpty-Dumpty: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Humpty Dumpty)

noun:  A nursery rhyme character who falls from a wall and breaks irreparably in the manner of an egg; (figurative) by extension, anything similarly fragile, irreparably damaged, or insecure, precariously at risk of such irreparable damage.
noun:  (obsolete) A Romani drink of ale boiled with brandy.

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