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dumpling

[ duhmp-ling ]

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noun

a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat.
a dessert consisting of a wrapping of dough enclosing sliced apples or other fruit, boiled or baked.
a short or stout person.

dumpling

/ ˈdʌmplɪŋ /

1590–1600; dump (of uncertain origin) + -ling ¹

C16: dump- , perhaps variant of lump ¹+ -ling ¹

Mamoru taunts Usagi by giving her the nickname “dumpling head.”

Finally I believe this bunch isn't much smarter than the Apple Dumpling Gang.

Restaurant Soup dumpling shops may be a dime a dozen, but these are the best of the best.

Before I kid anyone, I am not about to recommend street vendors or secret dumpling shops.

Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”

Scattergood opened his eyes and peered over his dumpling cheeks at McKettrick, but said nothing.

Lippo, seriously looking at him, said quite reproachfully, "Now you don't even see that we have apple-dumpling."

It belongs as much to the cooking of a dumpling as it does to the belief in deity.

His big fat face, shaped like a dumpling, wore a hard and ugly expression.

She had a clean cloth on the table, a plentiful dinner provided, and a dumpling set before each boy.

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