a Chinese dish consisting of casings of noodle dough filled with chopped meat, fish, or vegetables and boiled: served in a broth () or fried and served as a side dish
Origin:
Cantonese wan t'an < Mandarin hun tun, stuffed dumpling
See won ton in American Heritage Dictionary 4
or won·ton
noun
A noodle-dough dumpling filled typically with spiced minced pork or other ground meat, usually boiled in soup or fried and eaten as a side dish.