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Humpty-Dumpty

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Humpty-Dumpty the egg-like nursery-rhyme character who fell off a wall and could not be put together again; the rhyme was originally a riddle to which the answer was ‘egg’, and is recorded from the first half of the 19th century. Humpty-Dumpty is a character in Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872).

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humpty-dumpty

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humpty-dumpty •footy, putti, sooty, tutti •shufti • casualty • deputy •butty, cutty, gutty, nutty, puttee, putty, rutty, smutty •mufti, tufty •bhakti • subtlety • humpty-dumpty •Bunty, runty •bustee, busty, crusty, dusty, fusty, gusty, lusty, musty, rusty, trusty •fealty • realty •propriety, society •loyalty, royalty •cruelty •Krishnamurti, Trimurti •liberty • puberty •faggoty, maggoty •Hecate • chocolatey • Cromarty •commonalty • personalty • property •carroty • guaranty • mayoralty •warranty • admiralty • severalty •poverty •Alberti, Bertie, dirty, flirty, shirty, thirty •uncertainty •Kirstie, thirsty •bloodthirsty

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