2006-07-13 15:35:51 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
It doesn't say , but the illustrations show him as an egg.
It also doesn't say he is male either , just illustrated as a male egg.
2006-07-13 15:41:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say in the rhyme that humpty dumpty is an egg, but what is now a nursery rhyme was originally a riddle, first printed in the year 1810. The answer to the riddle is that humpty dumpty was an egg, instead of a short, clumsy person( apparently, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, humpty dumpty was slang for a short, clumsy person). Over time the answer to the riddle became so well known that it ceased to function as a riddle and eventually became what it is today.
2006-07-13 22:51:35 · answer #2 · answered by unexpectedbill3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't appear in the nursery rhyme, and for good reason. It was originally a riddle, with the now obvious answer of Humpty was an egg, that we have since turned into a nursery rhyme.
2006-07-13 22:41:36 · answer #3 · answered by MELISSA B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was originally printed as a riddle, back when 'Humpty Dumpty" was used as a term to describe clumsy people. Since a person wouldn't be broken from falling, the "answer" to the riddle was that it was an egg, and was later portrayed as such in the Mother Goose books.
2006-07-13 22:40:43 · answer #4 · answered by Swarms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't, because the nursery rhyme is a riddle. The answer is, of course, an egg. "All the king's horses and all the king's men" not being able to do something was a dead giveaway for a riddle back in the day. Another riddle with them in it is "Hickamore Hackamore on the king's kitchen door. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't get Hickamore Hackamore off the king's kitchen door."
2006-07-13 22:40:18 · answer #5 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreperably damaged, an egg would be.
2006-07-13 22:39:25 · answer #6 · answered by SquirrelBait 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't but ,much like the other nursery rhymes it was most likely told about a true story maybe it was some fat man that jumped off a wall and everyone tried to help but as we all know they couldn't get him back together again. the art work is for the kids that is now why these freaky stories are for kids. Old Mother hubbard Jack and Jill Little bo peep little jack horner
2006-07-13 22:42:43 · answer #7 · answered by unhappyinin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was just assumed that Humpty was an egg because it could not sit on the wall. What else could roll of the edge of a wall because it could not sit still? A egg.
2006-07-13 22:38:43 · answer #8 · answered by prettybrowneyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, what's choo got ginst eggs, foo? Eggs is gud fa ya! Humpty went splat right in my frying pan, along with some sausage and some asparagus. Now that's one mean omelet you got der.
2006-07-13 22:44:00 · answer #9 · answered by UCSteve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the Humpty Code. It also said he married little miss muffet and had children.
2006-07-13 22:40:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋