dimple

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Even the dimple was there when the sweeping lashes lifted and her eyes met mine in a smile of infinite tenderness Little was said on that brief journey.

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  1. noun A small natural indentation in the flesh on a part of the human body, especially in the cheek or on the chin.
  2. noun A slight depression or indentation in a surface.
  3. intransitive verb To form dimples by smiling.

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  • "You're going to come more than once this time I know His dimple was the last thing she saw before he lowered his mouth once more Chapter 12 W ould you pass that syrup down here?" —  ABC Amber LIT Converter
  • The dimple was about forty feet in diameter and ten feet deep, perfectly flat at the bottom, with steeply angled sides like a giant inverted bottle cap. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • There was some hard data about a heat rise in the center of the dimple, a heat rise that declined in temperature during the first three weeks of observation before leveling out about nine degrees centigrade above historical ambient surface temperature. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • The drop to the flat surface of the dimple was about ten feet and looked vaguely like a ring of waterfalls. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • I was so busy navigating the rim of the dimple, the fact that she had called me "Bruce" didn't immediately register. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
 

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  1. Middle English dimpel.

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  1. Origin uncertain (not in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon); usually regarded as a nasalized form of dippie, a diminutive of dip, a depression: see dip, n. Cf. Old High German dumphilo, Middle High German tumpfel, tümpfel, German tümpel, dümpfel, a pool. Cf. Norwegian depil, a pool: see dapple. See dimble and dingle.
  2. from dimple, n.
 

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/ˈdɪmpl/
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