Humpty Dumpty, fictional character who is the subject of a nursery rhyme and who has become widely known as a personified egg. The origins of the rhyme are unclear, but it probably started as a riddle to which the answer was egg. This may explain why the quatrain never specifically describes its main character:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men.