dumpling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
    dumplings.
  2. noun dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry

WordNet

Dump"ling noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913