subs. (colloquial).—1. A short and thick-set person; a GRUNDY (q.v.); a hunch-back. For synonyms, see FORTY GUTS.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
2. (old).—See quot. 1696.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HUMPTEY DUMPTEY, Ale boild with Brandy.
1698. M. SORBIÈRE’S Journey to London in the Year 1698, p. 135, quoted in Notes and Queries, 6 S., xii., 167. He answer’d me that he had a thousand such sort of liquors, as HUMTIE DUMTIE, Three Threads….
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1837. B. DISRAELI, Venetia, i., 14. As for the beverage they drank HUMPTY-DUMPTY, which is ale boiled with brandy.
Adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Short and thick; all of a heap; all together.
