DUMPLING

dumpling

(noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry

dumpling, dumplings

(noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

dumpling (plural dumplings)

(culinary) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]

By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.

(familiar) A term of endearment.

(mildly, vulgar) A piece of excrement.

Hyponyms

• See also dumpling

Source: Wiktionary


Dump"ling, n. Etym: [Dimin. of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D. dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to dump in to plunge into, and E. dump, v. t.]

Definition: A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

DUMPLE

Dum"ple, v. t. Etym: [See Dumpling.]

Definition: To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. [R.] He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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