different between dumpling vs rumpling

English

Etymology

A folk word [c. 1600s], apparently from a Norfolk dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some Low German word or from dialectal dump (“lump”) [late 1800s], +? -ling (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?mpl??/

Noun

dumpling (plural dumplings)

1. (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
   1. By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
2. (familiar) A term of endearment.

3. (mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
   • 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated

     Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:dumpling

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• canederlo, gnocchi
• dim sim
• dim sum
• empanada
• har gow
• pierogi
• varenyky
• pelmeni
• quenelle
• ravioli
• shaomai, shumai
• wonton

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Further reading

• dumpling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Verb

rumpling

1. present participle of rumple

Noun

rumpling (plural rumplings)

1. The act by which something is rumpled.
   • 1871, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts (page 306)

     Of course, these rumplings are not left obvious to our eyes. Whilst the earth is wrapping its old coat about it, the busy hands of the sun are smoothing down the creases—by heat and frost, rain and wind, waves and rivers […]