dumpling-depot
noun1
Archaic, Humorous, Slang Synonym 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:
- 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: