单词 | dumpling |
释义 | dumplingn. 1. a. A kind of pudding consisting of a mass of paste or dough, more or less globular in form, either plain and boiled, or enclosing fruit and boiled or baked. (Originally attributed to Norfolk.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > dumplings dumpling1600 Norfolk dumpling1600 macaroni1616 doughboy1685 pot-ball1688 potato dumpling1765 fungee1789 hop-about1820 knödel1827 johnnycake1831 dough ball1836 Salzburger nockerl1855 pierogi1863 gnocchi1891 cob1898 matzo ball1902 knaidel1903 pizzelle1912 knish1916 mandlen1944 shumai1951 nockerl1954 potsticker1963 1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. B4 He loockt like a Norfolke dumpling, thicke and short. a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. D2v When mine Hostis came up to call me, I was as naked as your Norfolk-Dumplin. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 293/2 A Dumpling, or Pot-Ball is made either long or round, as the maker pleaseth. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋2 An Esquire of Norfolk eats Two Pounds of Dumplin every Meal. 1793 W. Maxwell in J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 12/1 A clergyman of small income..brought up a family very reputably, which he chiefly fed with apple dumplins. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. i. 1/1 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. transferred. A pasty mass like a dumpling. Π 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) III. 199 Mix them up..into a Mass, out of which form Dumplins. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) III. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person knarc1405 hoddy-doddya1556 trunk1586 truncheon1601 stump1602 fubs1614 dumpling1617 punch1669 Punchinello1669 spud1688 knur1691 knurl1691 runt1699 squab1699 swad1706 humpty-dumpty1785 junt1787 knurlinga1796 pudge1808 stumpie1820 nugget1825 podge1834 dump1840 dumpy1868 pyknic1925 mesomorph1940 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Dwarfe A dwarfe, dumplin, a Nobodie. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 6 Shorte runtish sheepe..of the shepheards called ‘dumplings’ or ‘grasse-belly'd lambs’. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Dumpling, a little fat child or person, as broad as long. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ix. 81 You ought to have..a nice little dumpling of a wife. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. Π 1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 21 Why should Dumpling-Eating be ridicul'd, or Dumpling-Eaters derided? 1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper iv. 36 She had no idea that there could be any prettiness in a dumpling figure. 1893 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour (rev. ed.) xxxiii. 180 A young dumpling-shaped doctor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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