Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece of dough, sometimes filled, that is cooked in liquid such as water or soup.
- noun Sweetened dough wrapped around fruit, such as an apple, baked and served as a dessert.
- noun Informal A short, chubby creature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of pudding or mass of boiled paste, or a wrapping of paste in which fruit is boiled.
- noun A dwarf.
- noun Any one of two or three species of dwarf, stemless, succulent evergreen plants belonging to the genus Mesembryan-themum, especially M. minimum, called the small dumpling, a plant only half an inch high, and M. obcordellum, called the greater dumpling, which is about an inch higher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A ball of
dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. - noun A
term of endearment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
- noun dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the word dumpling confuses a New York City native, say “matzo ball.”
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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However, I did make some chicken and dumplings the way my mama makes it and surprisingly, my English hubby really liked it, even though here a dumpling is a whole 'nother thing - more like a biscuit (American biscuit, not a cookie!) that floats on top of soup - crunchy on top and a bit soggy on the bottom, and equally delicious.
Tex-Mex chicken and dumplings recipe | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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And the strip style of dumpling is what the cheater flour tortilla method closely approximates.
Tex-Mex chicken and dumplings recipe | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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If I've learned anything about hipster pop-up joints, it's that the reason they charge stupid prices like $2 a dumpling is because hipsters hate money, don't understand things like market value and often will gladly pay it.
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The white fungus dumpling is a vegetarian option and one of the restaurant's specialties.
Dim Sum Lunch 2010
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Call me just another average uneducated white guy, but I think the Thai Chicken dumpling is great.
Downtown Lunch: You Don't Have to Eat at McDonald's! | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2009
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The dumpling is dry inside though and they have boil plantains instead of fried ones.
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Mike Betit, principal of Tamarack Hollow Farms, served a controversial mac and cheese in Asian dumpling wrappers, lightly browned in butter — did he win?
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Truth be told, both Phyllis and I preferred the pork soup buns in Charlottesville, with their loose meat and liquidy interior, which I later found out is the more traditional approach; the meatball inside your dumpling, in other words, should never be as firm as a doggy chew toy.
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis Tim Carman 2012
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[Everything is a friggin dumpling at dim sum, so I try not to use their English names ...]).
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