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Definition: Dumplings |
DumplingsNoun1. Small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dumplings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: DumplingsSynonym: dumpling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dumplings |
| English words defined with "dumplings": chunky ♦ dim sum ♦ fricassee ♦ lumpy ♦ pepper pot, Philadelphia pepper pot, potpie ♦ sauerbraten ♦ won ton, wonton, wonton soup. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dumplings": ravs. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pass the Dumplings (1926) The Dumplings (1976) | |
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| "Dumplings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dumplings" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dumplings": meat dumplings. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dumplings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chamorro | ahu (coconut dumplings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 饺子 (Dumpling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | masové knedlíèky (meat dumplings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Knödel (dumpling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | májgombóc (liver dumplings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 花より団子 (dumplings rather than flowers, people are more interested in the practical over the aesthetic), 草餅 (rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort), 草 (rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort), 黍団子 (millet dumplings), 蛸焼 (octopus dumplings), "餅 (rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort), た"焼き (cringing, octopus dumplings, overwhelmed, recoiling, to falter, to wince). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"やき (octopus dumplings), きび "" (millet dumplings), くさもち (rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort), よもぎもち (rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort), はなより "" (dumplings rather than flowers, people are more interested in the practical over the aesthetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 만두 (Dumpling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umplingsday пельмени (meat dumplings, pelmeni). (various references) noklice, nokle, knedle. (various references) albondiga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Dumplings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dumbling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dumplings" (pronounced du"mplingz) |
| 6 | -m p l i ng z | samplings. |
| 5 | -p l i ng z | couplings, saplings. |
| 4 | -l i ng z | Billings, ceilings, cowlings, darlings, dealings, ducklings, dwellings, earthlings, failings, feelings, filings, fillings, killings, mailings, nestlings, pilings, railings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, schillings, seedlings, shillings, siblings, skillings, spellings, tailings, underlings, yearlings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, coverings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, earnings, earrings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, fastenings, feedings, fightings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, runnings, savings, sayings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, sightings, slayings, soundings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-l-m-n-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: dumpings, dumpling, slumping. | |
-2 letters: dumping, impugns, lumping, pluming, pulings, pulsing, spuming. | |
-3 letters: dingus, duping, guilds, impugn, linums, lungis, lupins, muling, musing, muslin, nudism, pignus, puling, sluing, spuing, umping. | |
-4 letters: dings, dumps, dungs, gilds, gimps, glims, guids, guild, gulps, iglus, limns, limps, lings, linum, lumps, lungi, lungs, lupin, minds, minus, munis, nidus, pilus, pings, plugs. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-l-m-n-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: displuming. | |
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