Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumpies
Literary usage of Dumpies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and by William Bernhard Tegetmeier (1867)
"In the dumpies we at once obtain the best possible cross that could be desired for
... dumpies carry much meat in proportion to their apparent size, ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A still condensing mass; so called from being of the shape of a dumb-bell.
pels or dumpies, the same word as Dumplings, and meaning heavy (weights). ..."
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