Dornick
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Dornick
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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 and suggests a derivation from Irish "dornóg", alternate spelling "doirneog". 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.
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