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- Dornick comment "Dornick is cited in the Oxford English Dictionary as a dialectal US term originating in the mid-19th century, meaning "pebble, stone or small boulder." The OED suggests a derivation from Irish "dornog" (small stone). 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 (Paul G.".