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Definition of Dumple
1. v. t. To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
Definition of Dumple
1. Verb. (transitive) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dumple
1. to cook a dumpling [v DUMPLED, DUMPLING, DUMPLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumple
Literary usage of Dumple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart by Andrew Lang (1897)
"dumple it." —A gold medal—Attempts to help Hogg.—Medal.—Salver, or bread-basket ?
THE life of the Editor of a Quarterly Review is not, even in the best ..."
2. Eliza Cook's Journal by Eliza Cook (1850)
"One of these samo children, Margery dumple, living mentally again through ...
Good must be the nature that could do this so genuinely as Margery dumple ! ..."
3. The Odd Fellows' Magazine by Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity (1841)
"I cannot undertake to say what weighty cause drew Mrs. dumple from her bed at
this early hour, for she usually never made her ..."
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