derring-doery

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

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Etymology tree
English derring-do
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English derring-doery
From derring-do + -ery.
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