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dimps dial.
Also 9– dampse, dempse, dimpse(s), dimpsey, dimpsie, dumps.
[? deriv. of dim, or dial. variant of dumps, dump n.]
Dusk, twilight.
1693R. Lyde (of Topsham, Devon) Retaking of Ship in Arb. Garner VII. 450, I got no nearer than a mile from the bar, in the dimps [dusk] of the night. 1810Monthly Mag. XXIX. ii. 435/1 Dumps, dimpse, dampse, dimmet, twilight. D[evonshire]. 1867W. F. Rock in W. W. Skeat Nine Specimens Eng. Dial. (1896) 47, I thort I glimpsed Jan slinge to tha rebeck i' the dimpse. 1885F. T. Elworthy Rep. Comm. Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms 91 Just as the dempse was coming on. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Dumps, twilight; same as Dimmet. 1891R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland 40 Twaz gittin' dimps avore us stairted. 1892H. C. O'Neill Devonshire Idyls 25 But 'twas got quite dark all of a minute, and 'twere only in the dimpses when the maid shut her eyes. 1896G. Chanter Witch of Withyford xii. 149 There be pixies in the dimpsey here. 1925Glasgow Herald 1 Aug. 4 At the ‘dimpsie’ the colours of the flowers become more etherealised. 1950L. A. G. Strong Which I Never 161 'Twasn't dark. 'Twasn't more than dimpsey. 1965in P. Jennings Living Village (1968) 95 The Somerset village of Compton Martin..is on the lower north flanks of the Mendips... Local words include..Dimpsey: dark, twilit.
Hence dimpsy a. dial., dusky, as ‘It's getting a bit dimpsy’. (Devon.) |