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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