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Humpty dumpty Moderate

Humpty dumpty has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)

2

A Romani drink of ale boiled with brandy.

Proper Noun
1

A nursery rhyme character, a short, squat, egg-like being who falls from a wall and breaks, whose name has become synonymous with anything fragile or the existence of which is precarious.

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