dimmity
nounEtymology Apparently from dim + -ity. Compare with dimmit, dimmet.
1
Dusk; twilight.
- The glow became less. An amber cloud turned dull and lost its gold, changing into lead. “Deary dimmity l'” said Mrs. Hammett, sitting up.1895, The Woman at Home - Volume 4, page 97:
- Av coorse, times was better then — afore I went to sea as a tacker, I worked on a varm, an' I got nine shillun a week an' worked from dawn till after dimmity (dusk), zummer an' winter.1948, Chambers's journal, page 232:
2 more examples
- I have come so often after dusk, the whole feeling and tone of my thoughts are of dimmity, the hours between dusk and day, of the velvet dark when a raised hand before my face is no more than a paleness.1965, Fred James Speakman, A forest by night, page 174:
- At dimmity it flew down the right bank of the river and perched on the same branch of the fallen oak and skirred to its mate, who roosted by day in a barn near the village.2014, Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- crepusculum, mirkning, nightfall