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.