Meaning
A dumpling cooked by boiling rather than frying — a dense round or flattened patty of flour (and sometimes cornmeal) dropped into boiling water or a pot of soup. Firmer and plainer than a fried 'johnny-cake', boiled dumpling is a filling starch served alongside ackee and saltfish, mackerel rundown, or any 'breakfast', and 'spinners' are its small twisted cousins in soup.
Examples
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Bwile some dumpling fi go wid di saltfish.
Boil some dumplings to go with the saltfish.
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Di boil dumpling firm an filling.
The boiled dumpling is firm and filling.
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Drop di spinners inna di soup.
Drop the little dumplings into the soup.
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Drop a few boil dumpling inna di soup.
Drop a few boiled dumplings into the soup.
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Boiled dumpling an saltfish full yuh belly.
Boiled dumpling and saltfish fill your belly.
Origin
From 'boil' + 'dumpling'; the boiled (vs fried) flour dumpling. See Fry dumpling, Dumpling.
How it’s used
A boiled flour dumpling (vs fried johnny-cake); 'spinners' are the small ones. See Fry dumpling, Dumpling.