{"era":"current","word":"dumpling","meaning":"a boiled dough or paste ball, often wrapped around filling","children":[{"era":"c. 1600","word":"dumpling","meaning":"boiled paste; a wrapping in which something is boiled","children":[{"era":"uncertain","word":"dump","meaning":"proposed source meaning 'lump'","children":[],"language":"English / Low German (proposed)"}],"language":"Norfolk dialect English"}],"language":"Modern English"}