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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A piece of dough, sometimes filled, that is cooked in liquid such as water or soup.
  2. n. Sweetened dough wrapped around fruit, such as an apple, baked and served as a dessert.
  3. n. Informal A short, chubby creature.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of pudding or mass of boiled paste, or a wrapping of paste in which fruit is boiled.
  2. n. A dwarf.
  3. n. Any one of two or three species of dwarf, stemless, succulent evergreen plants belonging to the genus Mesembryan-themum, especially M. minimum, called the small dumpling, a plant only half an inch high, and M. obcordellum, called the greater dumpling, which is about an inch higher.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
  2. n. A term of endearment.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
  2. n. dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry

Etymologies

  1. perhaps an alteration of lump, possibly associated with -ling by popular etymology (Wiktionary)
  2. Earlier dumplin, perhaps from dump, lump. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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