dumpling
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- 20
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- 8
Definition of dumpling
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (UK)A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
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noun
- (UK)A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
- (US)A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
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(endearing)A term of endearment.
“My little dumpling.”
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(mildly, vulgar)A piece of excrement.
“2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.”
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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…
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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 you can make from dumpling
90 playable · top: DUMPING (13 pts)
Best play dumping 13 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
5 words5-letter words
4 words4-letter words
24 words3-letter words
43 words- IMP 7 pts
- UMP 7 pts
- DIM 6 pts
- DIP 6 pts
- DUM 6 pts
- DUP 6 pts
- GIP 6 pts
- GUM 6 pts
- MID 6 pts
- MIG 6 pts
- MUD 6 pts
- MUG 6 pts
- PIG 6 pts
- PUD 6 pts
- PUG 6 pts
- DIG 5 pts
- DUG 5 pts
- GID 5 pts
- LIP 5 pts
- LUM 5 pts
- MIL 5 pts
- MUN 5 pts
- NIM 5 pts
- NIP 5 pts
- PIN 5 pts
- PIU 5 pts
- PUL 5 pts
- PUN 5 pts
- DIN 4 pts
- DUI 4 pts
- DUN 4 pts
- GIN 4 pts
- GNU 4 pts
- GUL 4 pts
- GUN 4 pts
- LID 4 pts
- LUD 4 pts
- LUG 4 pts
- NUG 4 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LUN 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- UNI 3 pts
2-letter words
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