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Dumpling vs Rumpling - What's the difference?

dumpling | rumpling |

As nouns the difference between dumpling and rumpling

is that dumpling is a ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough while rumpling is the act by which something is rumpled.

As a verb rumpling is

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dumpling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
  • A term of endearment.
    • My little dumpling.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * apple dumpling * clootie dumpling * dumpling squid * Norfolk dumpling * * potato dumpling * raspberry dumpling * rice dumpling * soup dumpling

    See also

    * dim sum * noodle * pudding * quenelle

    References

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    rumpling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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