Definitions for dumpling

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dumpling dump·ling

Spelling: [duhmp-ling]

IPA: /ˈdʌmp lɪŋ/

Dumpling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in dumpling (dgilmnpu).

Definitions for dumpling

noun

1. a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat.
2. a dessert consisting of a wrapping of dough enclosing sliced apples or other fruit, boiled or baked.
3. a short or stout person.

Origin of dumpling

1590-1600; dump (of uncertain origin) + -ling¹

Examples for dumpling

Corrections made by the author of dumpling are similarly marked.

So she put her spectacles into her pocket, and began to eat the dumpling.

Loose my dumpling too; And butter'd toasts and woodcocks?Mar.

Do not let the pot stop boiling, or the dumpling will be heavy.

I was poking at my dumpling when he asked me if I were a socialist.

Mamoru taunts Usagi by giving her the nickname “dumpling head.”

Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”

So the monkey ate the dumpling, and boy, dog and monkey all trudged on together.

Esther looks like a sausage, and Mellicent looks like a dumpling.

Peach-Prince told him, and at the same time offered him a dumpling.