bedimple

bedimple

English

Etymology

be- +‎ dimple

Verb

bedimple (third-person singular simple present bedimples, present participle bedimpling, simple past and past participle bedimpled)

1. To produce dimples in; dimple.
   • 1749, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ‎John Ozell, ‎Pierre Antoine Motteux, The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha:

     Here he spies a pleasant rivulet, which, through its flow'ry banks, glides along over the brightest sand, and remurmurs over the whitest pebbles that bedimple its smooth sursace, while that other, through its liquid crystal, feasts the eye with a prospect of gold and orient pearl.

   • 1788, The Goldfinch: Or, Vocal Miscellany, page 107:

     Good nature, believe me, 'tis the smoothest of varnish, Which ever bedimples the beautiful cheek ;

   • 1896, John Leekey, “Hope; Or, Similes”, in West-country Poets: Their Lives and Works, page 310:

     And the smiles of delight Bedimple her mouth, And heaven-born zephyrs Are sweet from the south;