dormie definitions
Jean-Joseph Cote
jjcote at juno.com
Thu Mar 2 20:57:59 EST 2006
Here we have a variety of possibilities for the meaning of "dormie".
Send me your onesies and your twosies by 9 PM EST on the 9th of March,
and we'll have a winner. Sort literary works incorporating the various
dormies are particularly solicited, and will be used as a tiebreaker if
needed.
Jean-Joseph
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dormie - n. - Lobster bisque.
dormie - adj. (Australian slang) - Asleep.
dormie - adj. (Heraldry) - Lying asleep. Example: "Per saltire purpure
and vert, a badger dormie or."
dormie - adj. (Golf) - In match play, ahead by as many holes as there are
holes remaining to be played.
dormie - n. (Australian slang) - 1. Safety date. 2. The object of a
second evening engagement, a late date.
dormie - n. - A serious mistake which has not yet been discovered by
others, but which one can no longer undo.
Dormie - n. - A variation game of marbles in which the game ends once all
of the four dormant marbles have been removed from the circle.
dormie - n. - A small rodent of the rat family (Muridae), Vombatidae
dormati. It is native to South America, occurring in mountainous
regions.
dormie - n. (Scots dialect) - 1) A student who boards with a
schoolteacher and performs domestic service as payment for classes. 2) A
poor student.
dormie - adj. - Having disappeared under mysterious circumstances. [After
Count Adolph von Ormy, who disappeared from the Texas town now bearing
his name in 1888]
dormie - n. - An antenna consisting of two crossed dipoles a short
distance apart, fed in quadrature, designed to simulate the radiation
pattern of an isotropic radiator. [Invented by Harold Dormie.]
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