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Noun: dumpling  dúmp-ling
  1. Small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
    "The chicken soup was filled with tender dumplings";
    - dumplings
     
  2. Dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
    "We enjoyed warm apple dumplings with a scoop of vanilla ice cream"

Derived forms: dumplings

Type of: afters [Brit, informal], alimentary paste, dessert, pasta, sweet [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Dumpling