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dumpling

noun

  1. food that consists of small pieces of dough wrapped around a filling
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Pronunciation: /ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/

noun

Etymology: A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk (East Anglian) dialect, of uncertain origin: * perhaps from some Low German word (compare dümpeln (“bobbing up and down”)), * or from the rare dialectal adjective dump (“lump, of the consistency of dough”) (first attested in the late 1800s), + -ling (diminutive suffix), although dumpling is recorded much earlier. However, compare dumpy (“short and stout”).

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

    “My little dumpling.”

  4. A piece of excrement.

    “2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.”