dumpling

dumpling
a) A ball of dough, often combined with suet, minced meat, vegetables or fruit, and cooked by boiling or steaming as they float on top of another dish.

My little dumpling.


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  • dumpling — c.1600, Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin, perhaps from some Low German word or from noun dump lump (late 18c.). Related: Dumplings …   Etymology dictionary

  • dumpling — ► NOUN 1) a small savoury ball of dough boiled in water or in a stew. 2) a pudding consisting of fruit enclosed in a sweet dough and baked. ORIGIN apparently from the obsolete adjective dump «of the consistency of dough» …   English terms dictionary

  • dumpling — [dump′liŋ] n. [< ?] 1. a small piece of dough, steamed or boiled and served with meat or soup 2. a crust of dough filled with fruit and steamed or baked 3. Informal a short, fat person or animal …   English World dictionary

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  • dumpling — UK [ˈdʌmplɪŋ] / US noun [countable] Word forms dumpling : singular dumpling plural dumplings 1) a small solid lump of cooked food made from flour and water, sometimes eaten with meat or added to soup 2) a sweet food consisting of pastry filled… …   English dictionary

  • dumpling — Crust Crust (kr?st), n. [L. crusta: cf. OF. crouste, F. cro[^u]te; prob. akin to Gr. ????? ice, E. crystal, from the same root as E. crude, raw. See {Raw}, and cf. {Custard}.] 1. The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dumpling — noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of lump Date: circa 1600 1. a. a small mass of leavened dough cooked by boiling or steaming b. a usually baked dessert of fruit wrapped in dough 2. something soft and rounded like a dump …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • dumpling — fish ball (fish don t have balls but are sometimes made into them. A ball of shredded white fish or cod and mashed potatoes, flour or other binding material, usually fried. Also called fish dumpling. See also catfish ball and ball) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • dumpling — /dump ling/, n. 1. a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat. 2. a dessert consisting of a wrapping of dough enclosing sliced apples or other fruit, boiled or baked. 3. a short or stout person. [1590… …   Universalium

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