"dimmit" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dimmits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dimmit (countable and uncountable, plural dimmits)
  1. (UK dialectal, Devon, Cornwall, West Country) Alternative form of dimmet (Twilight; dusk; crepusculum) Tags: Cornwall, Devon, UK, West-Country, alt-of, alternative, countable, dialectal, uncountable Alternative form of: dimmet (extra: Twilight; dusk; crepusculum)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1858, Edward Capern, “Kitty Lile; or, Mazed Kate of Clovelly”, in Ballads and Songs, London: W. Kent & Co., page 132:",
          "text": "“ My Billy is out with his boat in the bay.\nTo snare the bright herring for me,\nAnd I, with my arms, in the dimmit of day,\nWill snare the bold son of the sea.”",
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          "ref": "1867 August 5, L. Gidley, “A Harvest Custom in Devonshire”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume IV, number 186, page 215:",
          "text": "The following account of the same custom, as practised at Bideford, North Devon, has been communicated to me by J. G. Cooper, Esq., of that town “ The custom appears to have been immediately at the end of the day when the reapers had completed their cutting, usually in the twilight of the autumn evening (‘ in the dimmit ’ : Devonice), for the whole party to gather in a circle, […]",
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          "ref": "1888, G. B. Stuart, “Poppy”, in Charles W. Wood, editor, The Argosy, Summer edition, volume XLV, London, page 81:",
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          "text": "‘Punch 'll mind the door, and bark if any one comes nigh. Then in the dimmits’ (twilight) ‘you can go.’",
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          "text": "'Twas getting on vor the dimmits, and I hitched up the mare and went vore tii the back entrance. As I passed the kitchen winder I seed Albertina sitting there all alone, because 'er master and missus was well-to-do, and sat in the parlour evenings ; and I zim tü go all of a treemor like.",
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