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Dorcas

32 replies

Fallingovercliffs · 19/12/2014 11:23

Heard a lovely, chubby, smiley toddler being addressed as this in a shop yesterday.
Does anyone know of any other little Dorcases around. I thought that name had died a death.

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marmaladegranny · 19/12/2014 12:03

Out of kilter with you all! I love the name Dorcas - it's Biblical and apparently the Greek version of Tabitha...

123rd · 19/12/2014 11:43

Yeah-was just going to add"dork!!!"

Footlight · 19/12/2014 11:42

Nooooooo!

Just no.

BananaToast · 19/12/2014 11:40

Never met one, it reminds me a of a cross between dork and orca (whale). Not good associations!

SunnyBaudelaire · 19/12/2014 11:32

i dont know, wasn't 'dorcas' a make of pins years ago when mothers still sewed?

BreeVDKamp · 19/12/2014 11:28

My mum suggested Dorcas for pending DC1......... I remember being about 11 and meeting a HORRIBLE girl called Dorcas, and being Shock about her name. I also thought the reason she was horrible must be because she had been bullied about being called DORCAS.

"Sounds like a pincushion"???!! Haha I have never heard that before. What does that mean?

SunnyBaudelaire · 19/12/2014 11:25

its dreadful and sounds like a pincushion.
I did know one years ago but she would be over 50 now.