Usually means: Dough filled with sweet or savory.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dumpling: Merriam-Webster
  2. dumpling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dumpling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dumpling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dumpling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dumpling, dumpling: Wordnik
  7. dumpling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dumpling: Wiktionary
  9. dumpling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dumpling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dumpling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dumpling: Dictionary.com
  13. dumpling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dumpling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dumpling (disambiguation), Dumpling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dumpling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dumpling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dumpling: Rhymezone
  19. Dumpling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dumpling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dumpling: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dumpling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dumpling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dumpling: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. dumpling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dumpling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dumpling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dumpling)

▸ noun:  (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
▸ noun:  (chiefly UK) Specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
▸ noun:  (chiefly US) Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
▸ noun:  (endearing) A term of endearment.
▸ noun:  (mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.

Similar:
doughball, mandu, doughboy, wonton, dango, soup dumpling, tangbao, zongzi, noodle, trolly, more...

Opposite:
filling, hollow, empty, unfilled.

Phrases:
apple dumpling, Norfolk dumpling, clootie dumpling, Chinese dumpling, soup dumpling, more...

Adjectives:
little, round, sweet, large, small, big, hot, fat, apple, boiled, diddle

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Similar:
doughball, mandu, doughboy, wonton, dango, soup dumpling, tangbao, zongzi, noodle, trolly, more...

Opposite:
filling, hollow, empty, unfilled.

Phrases:
apple dumpling, Norfolk dumpling, clootie dumpling, Chinese dumpling, soup dumpling, North Dumpling Island, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Taro dumpling, polish dumpling, italian dumpling, more...

Adjectives:
little, round, sweet, large, small, big, hot, fat, apple, boiled, diddle

Colors:
    beige,     cream,     ivory,     pale yellow,     light brown, more...



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