dumpling - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

Contents

  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Etymology
    • 1.2 Pronunciation
    • 1.3 Noun
      • 1.3.1 Hyponyms
      • 1.3.2 Derived terms
      • 1.3.3 Translations
      • 1.3.4 See also
    • 1.4 References
    • 1.5 Further reading

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

A folk word, first attested in c. 1600s, apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump (lump) (first attested in the late 1800s), +‎ -ling (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dumpling (plural dumplings)

  1. (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
    1. By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
  2. (endearing) A term of endearment.

    My little dumpling.

  3. (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.

Hyponyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

food

term of endearment

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Further reading[edit]

dumpling - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)
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