dumpling-depot

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English

Noun

dumpling-depot (plural dumpling-depots)

  1. (archaic, humorous, slang) Synonym of breadbasket (the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack)
    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, page 35:
      "And because you would'nt let him he doubled you up with a wallop in your dumpling-depot, did'nt he?"
    • 1886, Judy's Annual, volume 38, page 182:
      But the mashers glared through their eyeglasses with surprise, as Montague's cheese whirled along, and flattened the waiter's dumpling-depot like a pancake.