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dumpling

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dump·ling  (dmplng)
n.
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.]

dumpling [ˈdʌmplɪŋ]
n
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
[dump-, perhaps variant of lump1 + -ling1]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dumpling - small balls or strips of boiled or steamed doughdumpling - small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
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
dumpling [ˈdʌmplɪŋ] nboulette f (de pâte)

dumpling
n
(Cook) → Kloß m, → Knödel m
(inf: = person) → Dickerchen nt (inf)

dumpling [ˈdʌmplɪŋ] n (Culin) → gnocco di pasta

dumpling
n dumpling [ˈdampliŋ]
(a) thick pudding or ball of cooked dough stewed beef and dumplings. kluitjie زَلابْيَه кнедла knedlík melbolle; bolle der Kloß μπαλάκι ζύμης bola de masa (jahu)klimp کوفته kokkare boulette (de pâte) כּוּפתָה गुलगुला, पकौड़िया valjušak, knedla gombóc kue berbentuk bola soðin eða steikt hveitibolla gnocco だんご 고기만두 kukulis ķiļķens; klimpa; pelmenis ladu knoedel melbolle, kumle (av hvetemel) (rodzaj kluski lub knedla) bolinho găluşcă клёцка knedľa cmok valjušak klimp แป้งยัดไส้ yuvarlak mantı 水餃 галушка آٹے کو پیڑے کی شکل میں پکا کر تیار کیا گیا پکوان bánh hấp

dumpling زلابية knedlík melbolle Kloß ντάμπλινγκ tropezones 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.
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.
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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