Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A noodle-dough dumpling filled typically with spiced minced pork or other ground meat, usually boiled in soup or fried and eaten as a side dish.

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  • noun A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables.

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  • noun a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup
  • noun a soup with won ton dumplings

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Cantonese wan4 tan1, from Middle Chinese xɦuntɦun (also the source of Mandarin húntún).]

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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).

    redblueamerica.com blogs 2010

  • 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.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • 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.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • 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.

    Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011

  • 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.

    Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011

  • 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.

    Shahid Mahmood: Muslim Superheroes And The House Radicalization Hearings Shahid Mahmood 2011

  • 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.

    Shahid Mahmood: Muslim Superheroes And The House Radicalization Hearings Shahid Mahmood 2011

  • 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.

    Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011

  • 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.

    Kumar Sangakkara attacks political battles marring Sri Lankan cricket 2011

  • 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.

    Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011

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