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dumpling|ˈdʌmplɪŋ|
Also 7–9 dumplin.
[prob. f. same source as dump a.: see -ling.]
1. A kind of pudding consisting of a mass of paste or dough, more or less globular in form, either plain and boiled, or inclosing fruit and boiled or baked. (Originally attributed to Norfolk.)
c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. ii. ii. (1881) 35 When mine Hostis came up to call me, I was as naked as your Norfolk-Dumplin. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. (1842) 17 He lookt like a Norfolke dumpling, thicke and short. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 293/2 A Dumpling, or Pot-Ball is made either long or round, as the maker pleaseth. 1709Steele Tatler No. 19 ⁋2 An Esquire of Norfolk eats Two Pounds of Dumplin every Meal. 1791Maxwell in Boswell Johnson an. 1770 (1831) I. 391 A clergyman of small income..brought up a family very reputably, which he chiefly fed with apple dumplings. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. i, Now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a Dumpling; concerning which last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties.
b. transf. A pasty mass like a dumpling.
1743Lond. & Country Brew. iii. (ed. 2) 199 Mix them up..into a Mass, out of which form Dumplins. Ibid. 240 Oyster-shell-powder, Pebble-stone-powder..one Quartern of French Brandy, and two Ounces of powder'd Ginger; Knead all together into four or five Dumplins.
2. A dumpy animal or person, short and of rounded outlines.
1617Minsheu Ductor s.v. Dwarfe, A dwarfe, dumplin, a Nobodie. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 5 Short runtish sheepe..of the shepheardes callede dumplinges, or grasse belly'de lambes. 1828Craven Dial., Dumpling, a little fat child or person, as broad as long. 1848Dickens Dombey ix, You ought to have a nice little dumpling of a wife.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1726Arbuthnot Diss. Dumpling 21 Why should Dumpling-Eating be ridicul'd, or Dumpling-Eaters derided? 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 180 A young dumpling-shaped doctor. 1865M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper iv. 36 She had no idea that there could be any prettiness in a dumpling figure. |