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dimpsy

/ ˈdɪmpsɪ /

noun

  1. dialect.
    twilight
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

One of the poems uses all 12 words, including "dimpsy" and "mardy", and will be read out on BBC radio.

From BBC

“I wouldn’ go up thicky avenue in the dimpsy again, not for a thousand—no, I wouldn’.

Downling in the dimpsy, the dimpsy, the dimpsy— Downling in the dimpsy Theer went a maid wi' me.

Down-long in the dimpsy, the dimpsy, the dimpsy, Down-long in the dimpsy Theer went a maid wi’ me.

“I didn’t knaw ’e in the dimpsy light.”

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