A short, round person or object, popularized by the nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty.
Origin unclear, possibly from 'dump' or onomatopoeia suggesting something heavy and stumpy, combined with '-ty' diminutive suffix. Made famous by the 1868 Lewis Carroll reference though the rhyme is older.
Humpty Dumpty might be based on a cannon or a real person, but what's wild is that a children's nursery rhyme gave us a word that's used in everything from metaphors about broken systems to describing someone's shape!
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