dormy

1. alternativenot comparablegolfAlternative form of dormie.

   Encyclopaedia of Sport A player who is dormy cannot be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match.

   1 more example

   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.

plural dormies

1. slangA dormitory.

   She called to Julian as he went to the boys' dormitory. 'Julian! See if Patrick is in your dormy.'

   1952, Enid Blyton, Here's the Naughtiest Girl