dormie
adjective
(of a player or side in match play) being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played.
dormy
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a variation of
dormie.
Example Sentences
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Ultimately all the jugs would be awaiting in Berney's lower dormy the great moment of Toffee Randall's speech.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
Another hole lost, and Pip would be "dormy."
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
Elsie required only a short putt to win the hole and make herself "dormy," and Pip had laid her a dead stymie.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
N was his Niblick around my head shaken: O was the Oil poured on waters so stormy, P was the Putt which, next hole, made me dormy.
From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various
Neave had foreseen that detection was inevitable and had determined that, up to the very end, the dormy should display its solidarity.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
