[ˈdʌmplɪŋ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small savoury ball of dough (usually made with suet) which may be boiled, fried, or baked in a casserole

- a small, fat person
(e.g: he was a 250-pound dumpling)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 17th century: apparently from the rare adjective dump ‘of the consistency of dough’, although dumpling is recorded much earlier