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dormy

dormy

English

Adjective

dormy (not comparable)

  1. (golf) Alternative form of dormie
    • Encyclopaedia of Sport
      A player who is dormy cannot be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match.
    • 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 110.
      I could see that Hemingway, confident that he would be dormy one, was a good deal shaken at coming to the eighteenth all square.