Talk:dormedory

The following references (moved from the entry) have this word as an archaic Herefordshire term for a lazy person or a person too tired to work: The term seems, however, to be unattested; it failed RFV. - -sche (discuss) 23:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient customs from the fourteenth century, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips
 * A glossary of provincial words used in Herefordshire and some of the adjoining counties, George Cornewall Lewis
 * Folk-Etymology, Haskell House

RFV
Created this page, then realised that my attestations weren't attestations at all, but just "We wish this word was still used" sites. Appears in quite a few collections of Victorian dialect as Herefordshire slang - Halliwell-Phillips, Wright, Cornewall-Lewis - and seems to be at least common enough to have developed a folk etymology (according to this dictionary, which also says that "dromedary" once meant the same thing). So, do any real uses of the word exist, or is this doomed to be unattestable? Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 23:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)