Meanings
comparative more humpty · superlative most humpty
- archaicShort and thick; dumpy.
We went into a good-sized, unpainted, wooden room, and I was by no means agreeably surprised to find that my expected beauty was a humpty little girl of ten years old, with a good-humoured countenance.
1820, William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant, volume 1, page 142
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of humpty-dumpty (“an inferior player”).
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humpty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humpty
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