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Definition: Derring-do |
Derring-doNoun1. Brave and heroic deeds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "derring-do" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Derring-do" is generally used as a verb "do" (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Derring-do" is used about 14 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 |
| Verb "Do" (base form) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "derring-do"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trimëri e paarsyeshme. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отчаяна храброст. (various references) | |
Hungarian | virtuskodás (bravado), virtus, vakmerőség (audaciousness, audacity, foolhardiness, nerve, recklessness, temerity, venture), szilajság (diablerie). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erring-doday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | heroicidade, bravura (bravery, chivalry, courage, exploit, gallantry, valiancy, valor, valour), arrojo (adventure, audacity, boldness, daring). (various references) | |
Romanian | nesocotinţã (flightiness, slip, temerity), cutezanţã (boldness, daring, enterprise, intrepidity). (various references) | |
Russian | отчаянная храбрость. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | luda hrabrost (foolhardiness). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin razonar. (various references) | |
Swedish | oförvägenhet. (various references) | |
Turkish | gözüpeklik (audaciousness, boldness, dare devilry, dare deviltry, daring, venturesomeness), cüret (audacity, boldness, brass, chutzpa, chutzpah, daring, forwardness, front, hardihood, hardiness, nerve, presumption, temerity, venture), ölçüsüz cesaret. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відчайдушна хоробрість (foolhardiness), нерозсудливість (fondness, imprudence, indiscretion). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự táo bạo (daring, hardihood, temerity), h nh động táo bạo sự gan dạ, h nh động gan dạ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: ordering. | |
-2 letters: dodgier, eroding, gridder, grinded, grinder, grodier, groined, ignored, ignorer, negroid, redding, redoing, regrind, rodding. | |
-3 letters: dinero, dinged, dinger, dodger, droned, droner, engird, eringo, erring, girded, girder, girned, gorier, grided, ignore, ironed, ironer, nodder, reding, region, ridden, ridder, ridged, rinded, ringed, ringer. | |
-4 letters: deign, dined, diner, dinge, dingo, diode, direr, dirge, dodge, dogie. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r" | |
+2 letters: disordering. | |
+4 letters: breadboarding. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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