dumpling
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.]
- (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
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:dumpling
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]food
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term of endearment
See also
[edit]- canederlo, gnocchi
- dim sim
- dim sum
- empanada
- har gow
- pierogi
- varenyky
- pelmeni
- quenelle
- ravioli
- shaomai, shumai
- wonton
References
[edit]- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Further reading
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