Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of dough, sometimes filled, that is cooked in liquid such as water or soup.
- n. Sweetened dough wrapped around fruit, such as an apple, baked and served as a dessert.
- n. Informal A short, chubby creature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of pudding or mass of boiled paste, or a wrapping of paste in which fruit is boiled.
- n. A dwarf.
- 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
- n. A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
- n. A term of endearment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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
- n. small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
- n. dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
Etymologies
- perhaps an alteration of lump, possibly associated with -ling by popular etymology (Wiktionary)
- Earlier dumplin, perhaps from dump, lump. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If the word dumpling confuses a New York City native, say “matzo ball.””
“However, I did make some chicken and dumplings the way my mama makes it and surprisingly, my English hubby really liked it, even though here a dumpling is a whole 'nother thing - more like a biscuit (American biscuit, not a cookie!) that floats on top of soup - crunchy on top and a bit soggy on the bottom, and equally delicious.”
“Call me just another average uneducated white guy, but I think the Thai Chicken dumpling is great.”
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“And the strip style of dumpling is what the cheater flour tortilla method closely approximates.”
“If I've learned anything about hipster pop-up joints, it's that the reason they charge stupid prices like $2 a dumpling is because hipsters hate money, don't understand things like market value and often will gladly pay it.”
“Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The white fungus dumpling is a vegetarian option and one of the restaurant's specialties.”
“The dumpling is dry inside though and they have boil plantains instead of fried ones.”
“Mike Betit, principal of Tamarack Hollow Farms, served a controversial mac and cheese in Asian dumpling wrappers, lightly browned in butter — did he win?”
“Truth be told, both Phyllis and I preferred the pork soup buns in Charlottesville, with their loose meat and liquidy interior, which I later found out is the more traditional approach; the meatball inside your dumpling, in other words, should never be as firm as a doggy chew toy.”
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“[Everything is a friggin dumpling at dim sum, so I try not to use their English names ...]).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dumpling’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...manicotti, spaggers, stelline, spaghettini, spag, linguine, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, mezzani, zita, spaghetti and 391 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Pies: Just like Grandma Used to Make ...
Pies, Tarts, Turnovers, and other flaky or wrapped lovelies
wonton, whoopie pie, Washington pie, tourtiere, tortilla, torta, tiropita, Tarte Tatin, tarte au sucre, sweet potato pie, strawberry rhubar..., steak and kidney pie and 64 more...
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Noodles: Slurp 'em up!
Noodles and noodle types from around the world.
Who's hungry?wheat, udon, tea, sweet potato, soba, Sevian, rice vermicelli, rice stick, rice sheet, rice, quenelle, potato and 23 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 351 more...
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Pigs on Parade
pig-words: including, but not limited to, famous pigs in film and fiction, historical pigs of note, pig breeds, and assorted porcine terms
babe, the empress of bl..., freddy the pig, piglet, miss piggy, old major, snowball, napoleon, squealer, wilbur, porky pig, petunia pig and 89 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (D)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
desert rose, dabble, daffodil, dagger, dairymaid, daisy, damask, damson, dappled, dart, dashed, dauphin and 111 more...
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NihonGoose's Words
colander, doily, nacre, mandible, carapace, glutinous, penumbral, skein, mollify, colloquial, sanguine, chagrin and 118 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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Time to be cute.
paddle, tickle, giggle, hiccup, buttercup, cookie, sock, chew, roly-poly, cartwheel, butterfly, bee and 23 more...
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