dormie

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

dormie (not comparable)

  1. (golf) In match play, leading the match by the same number of holes as remain to be played.

Etymology 2

From dorm +‎ -ie.

Noun

dormie (plural dormies)

  1. A dormmate; a resident of a dormitory
    • 2000 May 11, Charlotte L. Blackmer, “Smiley's people”, in rec.arts.books‎ (Usenet):
      As a dormie at UC Davis, I lived in the dorms that were between the cow barns and the pig barn.
    • 2004 April 25, Seamus, “Feed the hungry...”, in rec.sport.disc‎ (Usenet):
      Here's the problem. I've got a bunch of frozen burritos. I'm a starving college boy. My dormie dropped the last plate.

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Pronunciation

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Participle

dormie f sg

  1. (rare) feminine singular of dormi
    • 1869, Émile Zola, chapter VIII, in Madeleine Férat, Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & cie, page 162:
      Il songeait aux cinq années d’amour qu’il avait passées dans la possession de Madeleine, aux nuits tièdes qu’il avait dormies sur sa poitrine blanche; […]
      He thought of the five years of love which he had spent in Madeleine's possession, of the warm nights he had slept on her white breast;
    • 1890, Remy de Gourmont, Sixtine, roman de la vie cérébrale, Paris: Mercure de France, published 1923, page 21:
      Dans le décompte des jours passés, aux jours de maritale solitude, vous écrirez : Mémoire, c’est-à-dire, un cette fois, oubli ? Le premier repas pris ensemble sera repas de fête, et la première nuit dormie, une nuit de plaisance ?
      In the count of days past, of the days of marital solitude, you will write: Memory, that is to say, this time, an omission? The first meal taken together will be a festive meal, and the first night slept, a night of pleasure?
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