Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To fold; bend; double.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.

Etymologies

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See dumpling.

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Examples

  • Enjoy the luxurious, wafer-thin wings with fine water-dumple caviar.

    IGN Complete 2010

  • You can down all the dripping you can dumple to, and buffkid scouse too ad libidinum, in these lassi-tudes if you’ve parents and things to look after.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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