dimple
pronunciation
How to pronounce dimple in British English:
UK [ˈdɪmpl]
How to pronounce dimple in American English:
US [ˈdɪmpəl]
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- Noun:
- a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached
- any slight depression in a surface
- a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin
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- Verb:
- mark with, or as if with, dimples
- produce dimples while smiling
Word Origin
- dimple
- dimple: [13] Dimple originally meant ‘pothole’, and was not applied to an ‘indentation in the flesh’ until the 14th century. There is no surviving record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed, as *dympel; Old High German had the cognate tumphilo, ancestor of modern German tümpel ‘pool, puddle’. Both go back to a Germanic *dump-, which may be a nasalized version of *d(e)up-, source of English deep and dip.=> deep, dip
- dimple (n.)
- c. 1400, perhaps existing in Old English as a word meaning "pothole," perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz, which has yielded words in other languages meaning "small pit, little pool" (such as German Tümpel "pool," Middle Low German dümpelen, Dutch dompelen "to plunge"). Related: Dimples.
- dimple (v.)
- 1570s (implied in dimpled), from dimple (n.).
Example
- 1. You got a very cute dimple in your cheek .
- 2. You liked my mom because ...... of a dimple ?
- 3. The tesile fracture is mixture of quasicleavage and touph dimple .
- 4. B cute dimple just appeared in your face .
- 5. She got a cute dimple in her cheek .