dumpling
/ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/
dumpling noun: specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
Noun
dumpling (plural dumplings)
- Specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
- Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
- A term of endearment.
- My little dumpling.
- A piece of excrement.
- 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
dumpling meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian
dumpling in Hindi
- food
- गुलगुला gulgulā
dumpling in Tamil
- கொழுக்கட்டை
dumpling in Arabic
- food
- دَامْبْلِنْغ dāmblinḡ
dumpling in Persian
- food
- منتو mantu, دامبلینگ dâmpling
More languagesFewer languages
- dumpling in Thai
- เกี๊ยว gíao
- dumpling in Vietnamese
- mằn thắn, vằn thắn, hoành thánh
- dumpling in Myanmar
- ပေါက်စီ paukci, ဖက်ထုပ် hpakhtup
Examples of dumpling in a sentence
- I'll steam up a bunch of dumplings.
- I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
- The men devoured the delicious beef stew, boiled ground food and dumplings then the drinking began.
Forms of dumpling
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Origin of dumpling
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”).
Words formed from dumpling
- 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
- yeast dumpling
Phrases with dumpling
Questions about dumpling
- What does dumpling mean?
- Dumpling means specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
- What is dumpling in Hindi?
- Dumpling in Hindi is गुलगुला (gulgulā). See Dumpling meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dumpling?
- Dumpling is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dumpling?
- Dumpling is pronounced /ˈdʌmp.lɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of dumpling?
- The plural of dumpling is dumplings.
Words near dumpling in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dumpling (page history and authors); dumpling (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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