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One who had a fall
Answer for the clue "One who had a fall ", 13 letters:
humpty-dumpty
Word definitions for humpty-dumpty in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from French nursery rhyme hero (the rhyme first attested in English 1810), earlier "a short, clumsy person of either sex" (1785), probably a reduplication of Humpty , a pet form of Humphrey . Originally, humpty-dumpty was a drink (1690s), "ale boiled with ...
Usage examples of humpty-dumpty.
His head seemed poised on top of the wall, hairless and bodyless, like Humpty-Dumpty.
The mind of the Humpty-Dumpty was what one would imagine the mind of a dog to be: a simple, affectless reflection of the passing scene.