dumpling
English
Shrimp dumplings.
Etymology
A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump (“lump”) (first attested in the late 1800s), + -ling (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmplɪŋ
Noun
dumpling (plural dumplings)
- (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
- By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
- (endearing) A term of endearment.
- My little dumpling.
- (mildly vulgar) 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.
- 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:dumpling
Derived terms
- apple dumpling
- apple-dumpling shop
- Chinese dumpling
- clootie dumpling
- crotch dumpling
- dumpling-depot
- dumpling squid
- hump dumpling
- Norfolk dumpling
- North Dumpling Island
- potato dumpling
- raspberry dumpling
- rice dumpling
- soup dumpling
Translations
food
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See also
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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