| 单词 |
dorme |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † dorm(e1 Obs. rare.
[f. stem of L. dorm-īre or F. dorm-ir to sleep: cf. dormant.]
Sleep, slumber, a doze. in dorme: dormant.
1512Nottingham Rec. III. 339 Letting it [a sum of money] lyg in dorme, to the gret hurte of the towne. 1637Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 79 Not a calm soft sleep like that which our God giveth his beloved ones; but as the Slumbering Dorms of a sick man; short and..interrupted.
So dorm v., north. dial., to doze.
In Dialect Glossaries of Huddersfield, Sheffield, etc.
▪ II. dorm2|dɔːm|
Colloq. abbrev. of dormitory n. 1.
1900Dialect Notes II. 17 The student..lives in the dorm (dormitory). 1904Wodehouse Gold Bat xiv. 153 It went into Rigby's dorm. So it must have been a chap in that dorm. who did it. 1927A. MacDonald Dorty Speaking iii. 22, I found Midge in the dorm when I went up to change for tea. 1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza vi. 65 It was against the school rules to go up into the dorms during the day. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. p. ii/1 Much of it is a sort of smouldering defence of the original Tom Brown ritual: dorm feasts, fagging, hero worship, [etc.]. 1969C. Davidson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 342 Female students are permitted to determine how strict or ‘liberal’ their dorm hours might be. |
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