dormy
Informal shortening of 'dormitory,' used casually by students, boarding school kids, and anyone who has spent time in shared institutional sleeping quarters.
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Informal shortening of 'dormitory,' used casually by students, boarding school kids, and anyone who has spent time in shared institutional sleeping quarters. 'Dormy' has the comfortable, worn-in feel of a word that gets clipped in everyday speech because nobody has the energy for three full syllables. It's the kind of nickname that makes a grey concrete building sound almost cozy, and it's been part of campus and boarding school vocabulary for generations.
She got back to the dormy just before curfew, dropped her bag on the floor, and was asleep in two minutes.
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(slang) A dormitory.
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