dumpling

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dumpling/ˈdʌmplɪŋ/

▶noun

• 1 a small savoury ball of dough (usually made with suet) which may be boiled in water or a stew.

• 2 a pudding consisting of apple or other fruit enclosed in a sweet dough and baked.

– origin C17: appar. from the rare adj. dump ‘of the consistency of dough’, although dumpling is recorded much earlier.