Humpty Dumpty

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

Humpty Dumpty [Humpty Dumpty] BrE NAmE
1. 1 a large egg-shaped character in a popular ↑nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses, And all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
2. 2 a large egg-shaped character in ↑Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll who has a strange and clever conversation with Alice. When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less. Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass