Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup
- n. a soup with won ton dumplings
Examples
“wonton" (three points); a hit above the waist (including the arms) scores a "morther" (two points); a hit below the waist scores a "ripper" (one point).”
“Most familiar are those adapted from the culinary sphere, to refer to dishes initially purveyed by Chinese immigrants, mainly from Canton, and hence from Cantonese: chop suey, bok choy, dim sum, wonton.”
“Muslim leaders have yet to issue a fatwa against those Islamists who kill Christians; desecrate Synagogues; disfigure women and distort their articles of Faith to justify wonton acts of destruction.”
The Huffington Post: Shahid Mahmood: Muslim Superheroes And The House Radicalization Hearings
“Unfortunately to consolidate and perpetuate their power they opened the door of the administration to partisan cronies that would lead to corruption and wonton waste of cricket board finances and resources.”
The Guardian: Kumar Sangakkara attacks political battles marring Sri Lankan cricket
“At first I thought it was a fried cheese wonton, but it turned to be a deep-fried fish cake folded over with white cheese and a shiso leaf encrusted with panko Japanese bread crumbs which give it an extra-crispy crunch, utterly delectable.”
The Huffington Post: Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip
“They only need limited skill to form the shape and the best shortcut of all is using wonton wrappers instead of making the dough.”
The Huffington Post: One For The Table: Shu Mai For The Chinese New Year
“To form the dumplings, place about 2 teaspoons of filling in each wonton wrapper.”
The Huffington Post: One For The Table: Shu Mai For The Chinese New Year
“Maybe they'll replace the fabled Dodger Dogs with wonton soup.”
The Huffington Post: Stu Kreisman: Ni Hao! Time for Dodger Baseball!
“These acts of violence, wonton carnage, and mindless destruction of property are all the more disheartening because they were acts inflicted upon the nation by none other than Nigerians.”
Voice of America: Nigerian Probe into Electoral Killing Aims to Prevent Future Violence
“Spooky got takeaway wonton soup for lunch, from our regular Chinese place.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wonton’.
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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...trofie, torchio, sorprese lisce, strozzapreti, sorprese, rotini, ricciutelle, ricciolini, rotelle, radiatori, pipe, orecchiette and 391 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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Compound words by appearance, not def...
Requirements:
• The word should be a compound.
• Once divided, the individual definitions should not describe the compound itself.
• For sanity's sake, any word that also ha...pinion, electrode, faggot, accordion, display, lotion, lithe, mobile, wonton, spittoon, home, donkey and 10 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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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 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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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 439 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wonton.

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