Noun
small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
Source: WordNetAs for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. Hattie McDaniel
I suppose this is peasant food. You know, the workers in the fields needed these heavy dumplings and things to eat, but God don't offer them to me... John Banville
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. Dolly Parton
Dumplings are better than flowers. Japanese Proverb
Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better. Japanese Proverb
Ya bringing ya dumplings to carry way ma rice. Bajan Proverb