1. Small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
   "The chicken soup was filled with tender dumplings";
   - dumpling

1. Dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
   "We enjoyed warm apple dumplings with a scoop of vanilla ice cream"

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

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