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humpty

humpty adjective: short and thick; dumpy.

Adjective

humpty (comparative more humpty, superlative most humpty)

  1. (archaic) Short 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

Noun

humpty (plural humpties)

  1. (slang) Synonym of humpty-dumpty (“an inferior player”).
    Synonyms:
    humpty-dumpty

Synonyms of humpty

Forms of humpty

Adjective
comparativemore humpty
superlativemost humpty
Noun
pluralhumpties

Phrases with humpty

Questions about humpty

What does humpty mean?
Humpty means short and thick; dumpy.
What part of speech is humpty?
Humpty can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near humpty in the dictionary

  1. humps
  2. humps and dumps
  3. humpsore
  4. humpties
  5. Humptulips
  6. humpty
  7. Humpty Dumpty
  8. Humpty Dumpty word
  9. Humpty Dumpty words
  10. Humpty Dumptyish
  11. Humpty Dumptyism

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