dumpling
pronunciation
How to pronounce dumpling in British English:
UK [ˈdʌmplɪŋ]
How to pronounce dumpling in American English:
US [ˈdʌmplɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
- dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
Word Origin
- dumpling (n.)
- c. 1600, Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin, perhaps from some Low German word or from noun dump "lump" (late 18c.). Related: Dumplings.
Example
- 1. The first days of selling dumpling have been disastrous .
- 2. She loved it when a professor at the yale school of drama called her a " vicious dumpling " .
- 3. The waitress has been fluttering , waiting to introduce our next course , a simmered lily root dumpling .
- 4. Wu yang 's grandmother put a dumpling in her bowl .
- 5. What do you think of dumpling king ?