Other forms: dumplings
A dumpling is a little pocket of dough with a tasty filling, steamed or boiled. Pork dumplings, steamed dumplings, a plate of dumplings.
Nearly every cuisine has one, because dough and a filling is what you make when meat is scarce and flour is not. In British cooking a dumpling has no filling at all and goes into a stew. The word came from an East Anglian dialect.
1noundumplingA small pocket of dough, often with a filling.
“We had a bowl of soup with pork dumplings at the Chinese restaurant.”
dumpling is a food.
From an East Anglian dialect word of uncertain origin, recorded from the seventeenth century.
A folk word, c, apparently from a Norfolk (East Anglian) dialect, of uncertain origin:
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