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Dornick Hills Golf
''Dornick'' is cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as a dialectal US term originating around the 1840s, meaning "pebble, stone or small boulder". The ''OED'' found the earliest occurrence of the word at in the ''Daily Pennant'' (St. Louis) and suggests a derivation from Irish "dornóg" (small stone), alternate spelling "doirneog" (round stone, handstone). The ''Cassell Dictionary of Slang'' notes it was also used to mean "coin". "Hard as dornick" was a colloquial way of affirming a man's toughness in Indiana in 1939. Particular usages Cartoonist George Herriman used "dornick" frequently in his strip ''Krazy Kat'' to refer to the brick which Ignatz Mouse threw at Krazy's head in most episodes. In his screenplay for the 1936 sequel ''After the Thin Man,'' author Dashiell Hammett narratively describes a note thrown through a window wrapped around "a stone" but tells the police "Somebody wrapped it around a dornick and heaved it through my window." The word and its variant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, and provides ongoing descriptions of English language usage in its variations around the world. In 1857, work first began on the dictionary, though the first edition was not published until 1884. It began to be published in unbound Serial (literature), fascicles as work continued on the project, under the name of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society''. In 1895, the title ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in 10 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
