Dornick

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 (St. Louis) and suggests a derivation from Irish "dornóg" (small stone), alternate spelling "doirneog" (round stone, handstone).

This article is about the word. For other uses, see Dornick (disambiguation).

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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