dump·ling

(dŭmp′lĭng)

1. A piece of dough, sometimes filled, that is cooked in liquid such as water or soup.

2. Sweetened dough wrapped around fruit, such as an apple, baked and served as a dessert.

3. Informal A short, chubby creature.

[Earlier dumplin, perhaps from dump, lump.]

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dumpling

(ˈdʌmplɪŋ)

1. (Cookery) a small ball of dough cooked and served with stew

2. (Cookery) a pudding consisting of a round pastry case filled with fruit: apple dumpling.

3. informal a short plump person

[C16: dump-, perhaps variant of lump¹ + -ling¹]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dump•ling

(ˈdʌmp lɪŋ)

n.

1. a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soups or stews.

2. a wrapping of dough enclosing fruit or a savory filling and steamed, baked, or fried.

3. a short, stout person.

[1590–1600; dump (of uncertain orig.) + -ling¹]

dumpling

A small ball of dough, usually cooked and served with stew, or in a soup.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	dumpling - small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough dumplings alimentary paste, pasta - shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg gnocchi - (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese matzah ball, matzo ball, matzoh ball - a Jewish dumpling made of matzo meal; usually served in soup won ton, wonton - a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup
	2.	dumpling - dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry afters, dessert, sweet - a dish served as the last course of a meal apple dumpling - apples wrapped in pastry and baked

Translations

زَلابْيَهعَجِينَةٌ مَسْلُوقَة

knedlík

melbollebolle

mykykokkare

knedlaknedl

gombócnokedligaluska

soîin eîa steikt hveitibolla

gnocco torta di mele gnocchetto di pasta bollita

ダンプリング

만두

kukulis

ķiļķensklimpapelmenis

knedľa

klimp

ก้อนพุดดิ้ง

hamur yuvarıyuvarlak mantı

bánh bao

饺子水果布丁汤团

dumpling

[ˈdʌmplɪŋ] n → boulette f (de pâte)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dumpling

(Cook) → Kloß m, → Knödel m

(inf: = person) → Dickerchen nt (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dumpling

[ˈdʌmplɪŋ] n (Culin) → gnocco di pasta

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dumpling

(ˈdampliŋ) noun

(a) thick pudding or ball of cooked dough. stewed beef and dumplings.

dumpling

→ عَجِينَةٌ مَسْلُوقَة knedlík melbolle Kloß ντάμπλινγκ albóndigas de masa, bola de masa que se come en sopas o guisos myky boulette knedla gnocco ダンプリング 만두 knoedel melbolle kluska bolinho cozido клецка klimp ก้อนพุดดิ้ง hamur yuvarı bánh bao 饺子

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(whose name was Samuel Whiskers),-- "Anna Maria, make me a kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding for my dinner."

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"Sausage dumpling and apple turnover!" shouted the boy, which set them all laughing.

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Faux, senior, had told his son very frankly, that he must not look to being set up in business by HIM: with seven sons, and one of them a very healthy and well-developed idiot, who consumed a dumpling about eight inches in diameter every day, it was pretty well if they got a hundred apiece at his death.

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Why, it would be as flabby as a Norfolk dumpling. Ambitious people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread.

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I am just a dumpling. I've always been afraid of it, and now I know it is so.

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Stryver was rich; had married a florid widow with property and three boys, who had nothing particularly shining about them but the straight hair of their dumpling heads.

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Of course, it's a hard thing to have to keep other people's children, though young Mr Snawley is certainly as useful and willing as it's possible for anybody to be; but, if it could be settled in any friendly manner--if old Mr Snawley, for instance, would settle to pay something certain for his board and lodging, and some fair arrangement was come to, so that we undertook to have fish twice a week, and a pudding twice, or a dumpling, or something of that sort--I do think that it might be very satisfactory and pleasant for all parties.'

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Jingle, in a stage-whisper--'Large boy-- dumpling face--round eyes--rascal!' Here he shook his head expressively, and the spinster aunt trembled with agitation.

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they had dumplings too; small, but substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings.

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"We'll see whether he gives up or not when I take a sharp knife to him," her mother answered; "and as to his looks, a platter full o' gravy makes a sight o' difference with old roosters, and I'll put dumplings round the aidge; they're turrible fillin', though they don't belong with boiled chicken."

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PERSEVERANCE: I will give you the recipe for dumplings you ask for.

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But the fare was of the most substantial kind --not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens!

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