dumplings
SayDUMP-lingz/ˈdʌmp.lɪŋz/
- 1Plural of dumpling.
She steamed a fresh batch of dumplings for the holiday meal.
The restaurant serves dumplings stuffed with shrimp and chives.
Note
A regular plural that serves every meaning of its singular, and the food meanings split by region. In British use the word points to balls of dough cooked in stews and other sauced dishes. In American use it points to a filling wrapped in dough. It can also be a pet name, and, as a mildly vulgar word, a name for pieces of excrement, so context decides which is meant.
dumplings is a form of dumpling
dumpling, noun: A food made of a dough wrapper folded around a savory or sweet filling and then cooked. Full entry
- Forms
- dumplingdumplings plural
- Spelling
- dumpling → dumplings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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