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dumpling
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English
Etymology
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
Noun
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
- See also Thesaurus:dumpling
Derived terms
- apple dumpling
- apple-dumpling shop
- Chinese dumpling
- clootie dumpling
- crotch dumpling
- dumpling-depot
- dumpling squid
- dumplingy
- hump dumpling
- Norfolk dumpling
- North Dumpling Island
- potato dumpling
- raspberry dumpling
- rice dumpling
- soup dumpling
Translations
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See also
References
- “dumpling” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
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