Dumpling
['dʌmplɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry.
(noun.) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough.
Typist: Melville--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.
Editor: Michel
Definition
n. a kind of thick pudding or mass of paste.
Edited by Edith
Examples
- You recollect the case of the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suffolk Bantam, Grummer? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Patty makes an excellent apple-dumpling. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The result was that at Smith & McNell's he decided on apple dumplings and a cup of coffee, than which he never ate anything more appetizing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We went inside and as soon as the waiter appeared Mr. Edison ordered apple dumplings and a cup of coffee for himself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We have apple-dumplings, however, very often. Jane Austen. Emma.
Checked by Gilbert