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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dumple .
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Examples
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While the dumplings dumpled, Bertha unpacked her vast collection of powders, creams, and beauty supplies.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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While the dumplings dumpled, Bertha unpacked her vast collection of powders, creams, and beauty supplies.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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While the dumplings dumpled, Bertha unpacked her vast collection of powders, creams, and beauty supplies.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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While the dumplings dumpled, Bertha unpacked her vast collection of powders, creams, and beauty supplies.
Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007
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Moreover, "the little man, dumpled up together and so ill-made as to seem almost deformed," received from Fortune --
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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"He was," says Sir Walter Scott ( 'Diary,' January 18, 1827), "a little man, dumpled up together, and so ill-made as to seem almost deformed, but with a singular expression of talent in his countenance."
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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-- To go on with my subject -- Gifford was a little man, dumpled up together, and so ill-made as to seem almost deformed, but with a singular expression of talent in his countenance.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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