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apple dumpling

apple dumpling

1 3.3
A baked apple wrapped in dough and served as a sweet dessert
  • noun
  • /ˈæpəl ˈdʌmplɪŋ/
translation icon : dumpling de manzana
  • The recipe calls for wrapping each apple in pastry to create tender apple dumplings.
  • make apple dumplings

Examples

  • And make me an apple dumpling.

    Swiss Miss (1938)

  • I swear, I will never eat another apple dumpling as long as I live.

    Of Things Past (2023)

  • I had pulled out our recipe for apple dumplings last week, but did not have time to make it.

    Blog text (31)

  • She brought over her famous apple dumplings.

    Of Things Past (2023)

  • She baked delicious apple dumplings for dessert and served them with vanilla ice cream.

  • Every autumn, we enjoy making apple dumplings filled with sweet cinnamon and nutmeg.

Synonyms

dumpling
vsapple dumpling
2 3.0

A piece of fruit wrapped in pastry and baked, served warm for dessert

is the variety using a single fruit and often served with sweet sauce
apple pud
vsapple dumpling
  • UK
7.0

A warm sweet dessert made from apples, often served with custard

is the baked pastry fruit dessert often served with sweet sauce

How Rich

apple dumpling
1 3.3

Surface Forms

apple dumpling singular
apple dumplings plural

Morphology

apple + dumpling

The meaning is directly inferable from the constituents: 'apple' (a fruit) + 'dumpling' (fruit or filling wrapped in pastry) yields a pastry-wrapped apple dessert. This noun+noun food-compound pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.

Etymology

Apple dumpling comes from the simple picture of a whole apple wrapped in dough like a dumpling and baked. That's why the phrase means 'a dessert' of an apple wrapped in dough.