Humpty Dumptyish

Humpty-Dumptyish English Alternative forms en Humpty-Dumptyish Etymology From en Humpty Dumpty ish. Adjective 1 Resembling or characteristic of the nursery-rhyme character Humpty Dumpty. en 1 May 1907 Humpty Dumpty. A short cantata for children. By Walford Davies Henry Walford Davies. w:The Musical Times XLVIII 771 London Novello and Company, Limited; New York, N.Y.: The H. Willard Gray Co.,Sole Agents for the U.S.A. Reviews 316 https://archive.org/details/musicaltimesvol01orggoog/page/316/mode/1up 2 0027-4666 1608351 The work is brought to a ‘Couldn’t’ conclusion with ‘Humpty Dumpty’s song,’ for solo and chorus, in which the wall-perched hero ‘falls backwards with a crash out of sight’ to four very extraordinary looking chords of an exceeding Humpty Dumptyish nature—these crashing chaotic chords ‘are to be played (sfff) simultaneously, by placing both hands and elbows violently on to the keyboard as Humpty Dumpty falls. en 4 July 1953 Breaking Mr Daniel Alden Reed w:The Economist New York, N.Y. American Survey 24 https://archive.org/details/sim_economist_1953-07-04_168/page/24/mode/1up 1 0013-0613 1081684 But Mr Reed may have done some disservice to his own cause, for public opinion has had a clearer glimpse than for a long time of the Humpty Dumptyish powers of committee chairmen—“the disintegrate ministry” which governs Congress, as Woodrow Wilson called them. Relating to Humpty Dumptyism in language. en 1963 Peter Ure William Butler Yeats and the Critics Yeats Writers and Critics 31 Edinburgh; London w:Oliver and Boyd 121 https://archive.org/details/yeats0000urep/page/121/mode/1up 3394575 The correspondence with Thomas Sturge Moore has been edited by Ursula Bridge (1953), and reveals Yeats’s confirmed habit of making a philosophical argument mean what he wants it to mean in rather Humpty Dumptyish fashion. en eponyms