won ton

(wäntän′)

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.

Origin:

Origin: Chinese (Cantonese) wān t'ān

Origin: , equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) húntun

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