dumpling
Meanings
Plural: dumplings
Noun
- small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
- dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
- A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
- Specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
- A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
- Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
- A term of endearment.
- A piece of excrement.
Origin / 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”).
Scrabble Score: 14
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dumpling is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 20
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