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What is a dumpling?

What is a dumpling? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
  2. (familiar) A term of endearment.
  3. (mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
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We had saki, edamame, some kind of shrimp dumpling, and then I ordered this sushi platter.
The home-made desserts are supreme, in particular the clootie dumpling, bread and butter pudding and rhubarb crumble and custard.
Each dumpling melted in my mouth, the creamy tomato hitting my taste buds almost as an afterthought.
It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so short, but I end up looking like a dumpling, or a pudding.
The only two dumpling experiments I conducted in the past were ricotta gnocchi and spaetzle, those Alsacian egg pasta.
She also volunteered at her children's school cafeteria, helping to prepare pierogies, a kind of dumpling, every Friday.

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