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humpty (comparative more humpty, superlative most humpty)

  1. (archaic) Short and thick; dumpy.
    • 1820, William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant, volume 1, page 142:
      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.

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