Noun: dimple
| Singular | dimple |
| Plural | dimples |
Sample Sentences
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The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.
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The garden pool's dark surface […] breaks into dimples small and bright. [1815, William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons:]
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You have very cute dimples.
Nouns inflected like dimple
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-
3. Proto-Germanic *dumpaz
4. Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *dumpil
6. Old English *dympel
7. Middle English dimpel
8. English dimple
9. From Middle English dimpel, dimpil, dympull, from Old English *dympel (“pit, depression”), from Proto-West Germanic *dumpil, from Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz (“sink-hole, dimple”), from Proto-Germanic *dumpaz (“hole, hollow, pit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”), equivalent to dialectal dump (“deep hole, pool”) + -le (diminutive suffix).
10. Cognate with German Low German Dümpel, German Tümpel (“pond, pool”). Related also to Old English dyppan (“to dip”). See: Middle English Nouns '
dimpel,dimpil,dympull', Old English Nouns '
*dympel', German Nouns '
Tümpel', Old English Nouns '
dyppan'.
Verbs referencing "dimple"
German Nouns
Tümpel.