Associations to the word «Humpty»

Wiktionary

HUMPTY DUMPTY, proper noun. A fairy tale character whose name has become synonymous with anything fragile or the existence of which is precarious.
HUMPTY DUMPTYISM, noun. (idiomatic) The practice of insisting that a word means whatever one wishes it to.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky