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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--dornick This week's theme: Words borrowed from Irish. dornick (DOR-nik) noun 1. A piece of rock small enough to throw. [From Irish dornog (small stone, literally fistful).] 2. Stout linen. [After Doornik, the name of a Flemish town where the cloth was first manufactured.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The Winter Olympics have ended without anyone's drawing a knife and without anyone's tossing a dornick at Avery Brundage's balding pate." Arthur Daley; Olympic Afterthoughts; The New York Times; Feb 10, 1948. X-Bonus Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

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