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potsticker

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: guotie

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From pot + sticker, a calque of Mandarin 鍋貼 /锅贴 (guōtiē), coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1963, in the fourth edition of the book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.