dumpling-depot

plural dumpling-depots

1. archaichumorousslangSynonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”).

   "And because you would'nt^([sic]) let him he doubled you up with a wallop in your dumpling-depot, did'nt^([sic]) he?"

   1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, page 35

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   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.

   1886, Judy's Annual, volume 38, page 182

   Synonyms: breadbasket