Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dorsetted.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
goatboy commented on the word dorsetted
From the song "The Boys Light Up" by Australian Crawl. The word was invented purely to rhyme with corsetted
January 29, 2008
ningery commented on the word dorsetted
From the Wikipedia entry on the song The Boys Light Up...
The song contains the neologism "dorseted", to rhyme with "corseted".
"People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the Dorset Gardens - I'm trying to be as suburban as possible, and it rhymed with 'corseted'." - James Reyne, 20035
Dorset Gardens hotel is a pub in Croydon, an eastern suburb of Melbourne.
August 7, 2013
bilby commented on the word dorsetted
Correct.
August 10, 2013