Found 2 items, similar to Dumpling.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dumpling dumpling n 1: small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough [syn: dumplings] 2: dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
English → English (gcide) Definition: Dumpling Dumpling \Dump"ling\, n. [Dimin. of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D. dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to dump in to plunge into, and E. dump, v. t.] A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling. [1913 Webster]