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Definition: DARE-DEVIL |
DARE-DEVILNoun1. A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement. |
Date "DARE-DEVIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blusterer | Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DARE-DEVIL |
| English words defined with "DARE-DEVIL": Dare-deviltry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DARE-DEVIL": Bel-a-faire-peur. (references) |
| "DARE-DEVIL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DARE-DEVIL" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DARE-DEVIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Draufgänger (dare devil, daredevil, daredevils, go getter, wolf). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenegyerek (daredevil, enfant terrible). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | are-devilday.(various references) | |
Vietnamese | táo bạo (bold, daring, dashing, manful, reckless, temerarious), người táo bạo, người liều mạng, người liều lĩnh (harum-scarum), người không biết sợ l gì cả, liều mạng (desperate, devil-may-care, wild), liều lĩnh (hare-brained, harum-scarum, rash, reckless, temerarious, venturesome, wildcat), không biết sợ l gì cả. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "DARE-DEVIL" (pronounced 'Dare"-dev`il'): Demidevil, Pulldevil. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daredevil. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: deadlier, derailed, driveled, redialed. | |
-2 letters: deaired, deliver, derived, deviled, dreidel, leadier, leavier, raveled, readied, relived, reviled, rivaled, vealier. | |
-3 letters: aedile, aeried, ariled, deader, dealer, dearie, deaved, delead, delved, delver, derail, deride, derive, dialed, dialer, dirled, dreidl, drivel, elided, evaded, evader, eviler, ladder, laddie, laired, larded, laveer, leaded, leader, leaved, leaver, levied, levier, lieder, liever, raddle, raided, railed, reaved, reddle, rediae, redial, reived, relaid, relied, relive, reveal, revile, riddle, vailed, varied, vealed, vealer, veiled, veiler, vialed. | |
-4 letters: adder, addle, aerie, aided, aider, ailed, aired, aiver, alder, alive, ariel, dared, deair, deave, dedal, deled, delve, devel, devil, dived, diver, drail, drave, dread, dreed, dried, drive, eared, eaved, edile, eider, elder, elide, elver, ervil, evade, ideal, idled, idler, irade, laded, lader, laird, laree, laved, laver, leave, lever, liard, lidar, lieve, lived, liver, livre, raved, ravel, readd, reave, reded, redia, redid, reive, revel, riled, rival, rived, valid, velar, viler, viral. | |
-5 letters: aide, alee, arid, aril, aver, avid, dale, dare, dead, deal, dear, deed, deer, deil, dele, deli, dere, deva, dial, died, diel, dire, dirl, diva, dive, dree, earl, eave, eide, ever, evil, idea, idle, ilea, ired, lade, laid, lair, lard, lari, lave, lead, lear, leer, leva, liar, lied, lier, lira, lire, live, raid, rail, rale, rave, read, real, redd, rede, reed, reel, rial, ride, riel, rile, rive, vail, vair, vale, veal, veer, veil, vela, veld, vera, vial, vide, vied, vier, vile, virl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: daredevils. | |
+2 letters: daredevilry, overplaided, revalidated. | |
+3 letters: daredeviltry. | |
+4 letters: daredevilries, overidealized. | |
+5 letters: daredeviltries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 52 45 2D 44 45 56 49 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01010010 01000101 00101101 01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A R E - D E V I L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0052 0045 002D 0044 0045 0056 0049 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38355239153839564346 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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