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# dumpling

«dumpling» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small ball of dough that is boiled, steamed or fried…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dumpling, dumplings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dumpling is a small ball of dough that is boiled, steamed or fried, sometimes filled with meat or vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#m1)

2) A dumpling is a pudding of fruit wrapped in pastry, like an apple dumpling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#m2)

3) (informal) Dumpling is a fond name for a small, chubby child or pet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life dumplings come from many food cultures: British dumplings in stew, Chinese jiaozi, Polish pierogi, Ukrainian varenyky, Japanese gyoza. They are popular at Chinese New Year. In maths, sharing dumplings is a common problem. Phrases: «stew and dumplings», «steamed dumplings».

### examples

- Grandma makes stew with fluffy dumplings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x1)
- We ate pork dumplings at the Chinese restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x2)
- My mum and I fold dumplings for Lunar New Year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x3)
- Ukrainian varenyky are dumplings filled with potato or cherries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x4)
- There are 24 dumplings shared among 4 people, so each gets 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x5)
- An apple dumpling is wrapped in pastry and baked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x6)
- «Come here, my little dumpling!» said Gran. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x7)
- I remember that we once exchanged a rice-dumpling for a persimmon-seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/#x8)

### note

Countable: a dumpling, dumplings. The pet name is affectionate, but calling someone a dumpling can sound like teasing about weight. In maths problems, «each», «share equally» and «in all» show whether to divide or multiply the dumplings.

### In the corpora

- [shuìjiào (both falling) is to sleep and shuǐjiǎo (both dipping) is boiled dumplings, the classic learner mix-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/13/)
- [vareNYky are dumplings filled with potato, cheese, cabbage or cherries, often made together at the table; cherry vareNYky are sweet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/6/)
- [pelmeni are a different dumpling, with meat, and are not the same as vareNYky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dumpling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dumpling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.