Crossword clues for dimple
dimple
- Feature of a baby face
- Endearing facial feature
- Golf ball feature
- Part of a golf ball
- Depression common during childhood
- Any slight depression in a surface
- A small natural hollow in the cheek or chin
- Smile enhancer
- Smiler's hollow
- Mark on Miss Marker
- Cheek dent
- Cheeky, but attractive, feature
- Small natural hollow in a cheek
- Faint prayer to lose last depression evident in face?
- Depression in gloomy place, on ecstasy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. t.
To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.
--Shak.
Dimple \Dim"ple\, n. [Prob. a nasalized dim. of dip. See Dip, and cf. Dimble.]
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A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
--Milton.The dimple of her chin.
--Prior. -
A slight indentation on any surface.
The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into dimples small and bright.
--Wordsworth.
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dimpled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dimpling.] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
1570s (implied in dimpled), from dimple (n.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small depression or indentation in a surface. 2 Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To create a dimple in. 2 (context intransitive English) To create a dimple in one's face by smiling. 3 To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
WordNet
n. a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached [syn: dimpled chad, pregnant chad]
any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball"
a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple appeared whenever he smiled"
v. mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the smooth stream"
produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the adults"
Wikipedia
A dimple (also known as a gelasin) is a small natural indentation in the flesh on a part of the human body, most notably in the cheek or on the chin.
Usage examples of "dimple".
Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.
When the light touched the rock just right, tiny dimples could be seen, marks left by countless patient blows from a stone ax held in the hands of an Anasazi stone mason.
Then rose the maiden tender, From stool all golden bound, Her waist is trim and slender, Her bosom full and round, Each dimpled cheek encloses An Astrild, roguish sprite, As when on opening roses, The butterflies alight.
Miss Cornelia and Marilla put all the little love-made garments away, together with the ruffled basket which had been befrilled and belaced for dimpled limbs and downy head.
The triumvirate of childhood plagues a freckled carrottop with a dimple.
A young woman with an ash-blond helmet of hair and glittery blue eyes was waiting for me, her plump cheeks dimpled with anticipation.
The earrings she wears are far less gypsyish than those of university days, and only the slightest dimples on her earlobes betray the extra piercings which she was among the first to flaunt.
The jouncy, spacious ovals of her naked bottom fairly invited the whip as well as pinches and slaps, and the beautifully pronounced curve of her back and the dimple at her chinkbone which marked that beginning of the sinuous, shadowy groove separating her superb buttocks set my cock to aching all over again.
The forward bulkhead of the deserted second compartment dimpled from the explosions up forward but held, making it one of two compartments of the Kaliningrad to retain its structural integrity.
Further, while examining my legs it seemed to me that the age dimples which had begun to appear in my thighs had shrunk a bit.
The child there was snub-nosed, dimpled and too prissily dear to be believed.
She was Raphaelesque, like an old-fashioned Hollywood blond teetering on the cusp between beauty and slovenly middle-age, glossy curls falling past her shoulders, the milky loaves of her breasts swaying ponderously in gray silk, her motherly buttocks dimpling beneath a tight skirt, her scarlet lips reminding of those gelatin lips full of cherry syrup you buy at Halloween, her eyes tunnels of mascara pricked by glitters.
With a tear in her eye, and smiles in the dimples of her plump cheeks, Dame Spikeman looked on the adorning of the lady for the marriage ceremony, by the cunning fingers of Prudence Rix.
The dimple he was waiting for appeared to the far left of the pool almost under the boughs of a windfallen grazzlenut tree.
She peeled it over her head and stood naked, with her small breasts outthrust, narrow hips square and bonily dimpled, genitals flossed in feathery brown.