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Dimple

noun

A chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached. Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad.

Any slight depression in a surface.

A small natural hollow in the cheek or chin.

verb

(past & past part. dimpled; pres. part. dimpling)

Mark with, or as if with, dimples.

Produce dimples while smiling.

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"Dimple" Quotes from Famous Books

... his hoe among the callots and cabbagee, with the automatic stroke of a man brought up to one holiday per annum, and no Sunday. Meanwhile, the unreturning sands of Life dribbled through the unheeded isthmus of the Present Moment; and the fixed cone of the Past expanded; and the dimple deepened in the diminished and ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... out of which looked a white face with gleaming violet eyes. The other maiden had dark brown eyes, very large, very luminous; her cheeks were rosy, with just a hint of bronzing by the sunshine, a dimple in her chin added to the effect of her pouting red lips; her dark brown hair was unbound and falling loosely over her deep crimson mantle, which reached from her waist in five heavy folds. The recumbent ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... going out, and it was at the going-out of the tide that the best fishing was to be had. There was no wind, and the lagoon lay like a sheet of glass, with just a dimple here and there where the outgoing tide made ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... have; and a bright olive complexion, only the olive was a little too brown, the skin a little too coarse; and then Feemy's mouth was, oh! half an inch too long; but her teeth were white and good, and her chin was well turned and short, with a dimple on it large enough for any finger Venus might put there. In all, Feemy was a fine girl in the eyes of a man not too much accustomed to refinement. Her hands were too large and too red, but if Feemy got gloves ...

— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope

... instant a dimple flickered at the corner of her mouth. It departed. But departing, it swept the storm ...

— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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