dumpling
[duhmp-ling]
- 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.
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Origin of dumpling
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Contemporary Examples
Mamoru taunts Usagi by giving her the nickname “dumpling head.”
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November 26, 2014
Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”
Historical Examples
So the monkey ate the dumpling, and boy, dog and monkey all trudged on together.
Japanese Fairy WorldWilliam Elliot Griffis
Peach-Prince told him, and at the same time offered him a dumpling.
Japanese Fairy WorldWilliam Elliot Griffis
So she put her spectacles into her pocket, and began to eat the dumpling.
Loose my dumpling too; And butter'd toasts and woodcocks?Mar.
Esther looks like a sausage, and Mellicent looks like a dumpling.
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dumpling
- a small ball of dough cooked and served with stew
- a pudding consisting of a round pastry case filled with fruitapple dumpling
- informal a short plump person
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Word Origin
C16: dump-, perhaps variant of lump 1 + -ling 1
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Word Origin and History for dumpling
n.
c.1600, Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin, perhaps from some Low German word or from noun dump "lump" (late 18c.). Related: Dumplings.
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