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.

Origin of dumpling

1590–1600; dump (of uncertain origin) + -ling¹

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Related Words for dumpling

babe, youngster, child, chick, toddler, kid, deduction, suckling, nipper, bambino, button, nursling, tot, newborn, bundle, bairn, dividend, cherub, dumpling, buttercup

Examples from the Web for dumpling

Contemporary Examples of dumpling

Mamoru taunts Usagi by giving her the nickname “dumpling head.”
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Rich Goldstein
November 26, 2014
Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”
The Slacker Generation's Swift
Gerald Howard
March 3, 2010

Historical Examples of dumpling

So the monkey ate the dumpling, and boy, dog and monkey all trudged on together.
Japanese Fairy World
William Elliot Griffis
Peach-Prince told him, and at the same time offered him a dumpling.
Japanese Fairy World
William Elliot Griffis
So she put her spectacles into her pocket, and began to eat the dumpling.
The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls
Unknown
Loose my dumpling too; And butter'd toasts and woodcocks?Mar.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
Various
Esther looks like a sausage, and Mellicent looks like a dumpling.
About Peggy Saville
Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey

British Dictionary definitions for dumpling

dumpling

noun

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

Word Origin for dumpling

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

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Word Origin and History for dumpling

c.1600, Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin, perhaps from some Low German word or from noun dump "lump" (late 18c.). Related: Dumplings.