Derring-doery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Derring-do. nonce-word, uncountable
"1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, Gnome Press, part II: “Search By the Foundation”, chapter 11: “Stowaway”, He left Terminus in a sullen distemper. No one was at the port to see him off. […] He, Homir Munn, was risking his neck in derring-doery of the most outrageous sort, and yet he left alone."
Example
More examples"1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, Gnome Press, part II: “Search By the Foundation”, chapter 11: “Stowaway”, He left Terminus in a sullen distemper. No one was at the port to see him off. […] He, Homir Munn, was risking his neck in derring-doery of the most outrageous sort, and yet he left alone."
Etymology
From derring-do + -ery.
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