| 词汇 | Humpty-dumpty |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： from Fr. nursery rhyme hero (the rhyme first attested in Eng. 1810), probably a reduplication of Humpty, a pet form of Humphrey. Originally, humpty-dumpty was a drink (1698), "ale boiled with brandy," probably from hump and dump, but the connection is obscure and there may not be one. Meaning "a short, dumpy, hump-shouldered person" (1785) is attested earlier in Eng. than the nursery rhyme, though it may be from the notion of an anthropomorphic egg." 'It's very provoking,' Humpty Dumpty said, ... 'to be called an egg -- very!' " ["Through the Looking-Glass," 1872] |
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