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apple dumpling shop en · NOUN
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(archaic, slang, vulgar) The bosom of a woman, especially a fat or large-breasted woman.
Instinctively Nell glanced to her bosom to make sure it was adequately exposed before she remembered he couldn't see her. He couldn't appreciate the sight of her apple dumplin' shop because, to him, she was invisible.
1997, Casey Claybourne, A Spirited Seduction, page 121:When she noticed a gentleman surveying her bosom as well as her oranges, she said pertly, “Sixpence for anything in the basket, sir, but the goods in the apple dumpling shop are not for sale.”
2011, Gillian Bagwell, The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn:You're neither of you exactly what you'd call short in the apple-dumpling shop.
2010, Aishling Morgan, Devon Cream:
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