# potsticker

> English word · Noun

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

## 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/potsticker