dumpling.
A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
Meaning & usage
A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. Specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
A term of endearment.
My little dumpling.
A piece of excrement.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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