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dwimmer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdwɪmə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdwɪmɚ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English dwimmer, from Old English ġedwimor, dwimor (“illusion, delusion, sleight, magic”).

Meanings

  1. (neologism, obsolete, uncountable, usually) Magic, magic arts; sorcery; spell; occult art.
    • The soldiers peered into the deep dark shaft In which lay the monk with tonsorshorn A victim of the sorcerous lady's dwimmer craft 2011, John Henson, Broken Wings:
    • "It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer-crafty, having many guises." 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:
    • “The Lych and his dark dwimmer spell have you resisted—even defeated, defeated for the present. But you have not destroyed. They shall return in time, I fear.” 2010, W. R. Cooper, Oriana Oakley and the Primrose Path:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dwimmers Number=Plur lexicographic
dweomer alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

dwimmercraft

Relateds

dwimmery

Synonyms

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