dumpling
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 →
2) A dumpling is a pudding of fruit wrapped in pastry, like an apple dumpling. tree →
3) (informal) Dumpling is a fond name for a small, chubby child or pet. tree →
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 →
- We ate pork dumplings at the Chinese restaurant. tree →
- My mum and I fold dumplings for Lunar New Year. tree →
- Ukrainian varenyky are dumplings filled with potato or cherries. tree →
- There are 24 dumplings shared among 4 people, so each gets 6. tree →
- An apple dumpling is wrapped in pastry and baked. tree →
- «Come here, my little dumpling!» said Gran. tree →
- I remember that we once exchanged a rice-dumpling for a persimmon-seed. tree →
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.
- vareNYky are dumplings filled with potato, cheese, cabbage or cherries, often made together at the table; cherry vareNYky are sweet.
- pelmeni are a different dumpling, with meat, and are not the same as vareNYky.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dumpling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.