dimpsey
English
Noun
dimpsey
- (Britain, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset) The time in the evening just before dusk.
- 1896, Knocker, Gratiana Longworth, “Of the Evil Doings of Nance Darvel”, in The Witch of Withyford, page 11:
- She sat telling with the old Jane a good two hours, for 'twas getting dimpsey when she started up hill to Grange, and that she took easy as she was getting a bit stoutish, and it made her bad to hurry.
- 1910, Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Findlater, Mary; Findlater, Jane; McAulay, Allan, chapter VI, in The Affair at the Inn:
- If we two poor wayfarers could have sat quietly beside each other and chatted in 'e dimpsey light, it would not have been a bit bad, but there was something eternally doing.
- 1915, Ritchie, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa, “An Off-Shore Wind”, in A Tall Ship:
- There was the river: woodland paths skirting in the evening a world of silver and grey, across which bats sketched zigzag flights. Very nice in the dimpsey light, but stuffy in the daytime.
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