 Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme , probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English @-@ speaking world . He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg , though he is not explicitly described so . The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth @-@ century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott 's National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs . Its origins are obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings . 
 Humpty Dumpty <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a character in an English nursery rhyme , probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English @-@ speaking world . He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg , though he is not explicitly described so . The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth @-@ century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs . Its origins <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>are</mark></a>obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings . 
Humpty Dumpty a character in an English nursery rhyme , probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English @-@ speaking world . He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg , though he ain't explicitly described so . da first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth @-@ century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott  National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs . Its origins obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings .