apple dumpling shop

noun

The bosom of a woman, especially a fat or large-breasted woman.

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Meanings

nounapple dumpling shop (plural apple dumpling shops)

plural apple dumpling shops · alternative apple-dumpling shop

  1. archaicslangvulgarThe bosom of a woman, especially a fat or large-breasted woman.

    You're neither of you exactly what you'd call short in the apple-dumpling shop.

    2010, Aishling Morgan, Devon Cream
    2 more examples

    Instinctively Nell glanced to her bosom to make sure it was adequately exposed before she remembered he couldn't see her. He couldn't appreciate the sight of her apple dumplin' shop because, to him, she was invisible.

    1997, Casey Claybourne, A Spirited Seduction, page 121

    When she noticed a gentleman surveying her bosom as well as her oranges, she said pertly, “Sixpence for anything in the basket, sir, but the goods in the apple dumpling shop are not for sale.”

    2011, Gillian Bagwell, The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn
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