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dimpsy

/ ˈdɪmpsɪ /

noun

  1. dialect,  twilight

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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One of the poems uses all 12 words, including "dimpsy" and "mardy", and will be read out on BBC radio.

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“I wouldn’ go up thicky avenue in the dimpsy again, not for a thousand—no, I wouldn’.

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Downling in the dimpsy, the dimpsy, the dimpsy— Downling in the dimpsy Theer went a maid wi' me.

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Down-long in the dimpsy, the dimpsy, the dimpsy, Down-long in the dimpsy Theer went a maid wi’ me.

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“I didn’t knaw ’e in the dimpsy light.”

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