Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Humped; hunchbacked.
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Examples
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But I did look up that weird "humpty" reference, here's what I meant to refer to:
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He is innocent and people should stop listening to all the propaganda and lies spread about humpty.
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I have mastered the art, of sitting on edges like a humpty dumpty and I see you now teetering …
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I would say, China will be like a fragile humpty dumpty sitting in the middle of fence and fall into preys of modern colonisation/capitalism.
Global Voices in English » China: The Founding of a Republic 2009
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For the stimulus sceptics really do think they can put humpty dumpty together again, and that “aggregate demand”, as Cowen puts it, is a less “fundamental” problem than the financial service sector collapse.
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I think it is totally unfair to accuse humpty dumpty!
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If it takes your in-laws, pastor and the secret Republican club in DC to put humpty-dumpty back together again ....
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Putting humpty dumpty back together was like trying to stitch up hamburger.
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Another holier than thou right wing conservative probably doing the humpty dance with a fine looking senorita!
Sanford says he was in Argentina, not on Appalachian Trail 2009
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"All the king's men and all the king's money won't be able to put this humpty dumpty together again," said Romney spokesman Stuart Stevens.
Obama's 2nd-Quarter Campaign Funding Tops Rivals Brody Mullins 2011
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