dumpling

Synonyms for dumpling

noun infant

c.1600, Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin, perhaps from some Low German word or from noun dump "lump" (late 18c.). Related: Dumplings.

So the monkey ate the dumpling, and boy, dog and monkey all trudged on together.

Peach-Prince told him, and at the same time offered him a dumpling.

So she put her spectacles into her pocket, and began to eat the dumpling.

Loose my dumpling too; And butter'd toasts and woodcocks?Mar.

Esther looks like a sausage, and Mellicent looks like a dumpling.

Do not let the pot stop boiling, or the dumpling will be heavy.

Corrections made by the author of Dumpling are similarly marked.

I was poking at my dumpling when he asked me if I were a socialist.

The Seraph cast one anguished look at his dumpling and burst into tears.

It belongs as much to the cooking of a dumpling as it does to the belief in deity.