Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is the subject of a well-known nursery rhyme:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

The poem may originally have been a riddle, the hearer having to guess that Humpty Dumpty is an egg, but there are many other theories about its origins and its meaning.

Humpty Dumpty is also well known as a character in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, where he explains the meaning of some of the invented words in the poem Jabberwocky. He also confuses Alice by using words with non-standard meanings, explaining “When I use a word, ... it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”