dimple: [13] Dimple originally meant ‘pothole’, and was not applied to an ‘indentation in the flesh’ until the 14th century. There is no surviving record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed, as *dympel; Old High German had the cognate tumphilo, ancestor of modern German tümpel ‘pool, puddle’. Both go back to a Germanic *dump-, which may be a nasalized version of *d(e)up-, source of English deep and dip. => deep, dip
dimple (n.)
c. 1400, perhaps existing in Old English as a word meaning "pothole," perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz, which has yielded words in other languages meaning "small pit, little pool" (such as German Tümpel "pool," Middle Low German dümpelen, Dutch dompelen "to plunge"). Related: Dimples.
dimple (v.)
1570s (implied in dimpled), from dimple (n.).
实用例句
1. She had a dimple which appeared when she smiled.
她一笑就现出酒窝。
来自《权威词典》
2. But she smiled instead and the dimple crept into her cheek.
但她还是装出满脸笑容,一副逗人怜爱的模样.
来自飘（部分）
3. That's a dimple in her cheek.
她的脸庞上有个笑窝.
来自剑桥少儿英语口语入门
4. The composite displays the fracture features of the dimple and intergranular fracture.
复合材料的断裂形貌为韧窝加沿晶断裂.
来自互联网
5. SINK: Surface discontinuity, depression or dimple caused by non - uniform material shrinkage.
