(cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. / By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.

plural of dumpling

simple past tense and past participle of dumple

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumple

(transitive) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.

a baked dessert made from apples

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, dumpling. (This entry is a translation hub.)

plural of apple dumpling

plural of Norfolk dumpling

A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk, England. / (humorous) A native or inhabitant of Norfolk. / A variety of apple.