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derring-do Definition


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derring-do
noun
    1. old use, literary
      Daring deeds.
Etymology: 16c: from a wrong understanding by Spenser, the 16c poet, of the phrase derrynge do, meaning ‘daring to do', in the work of an earlier poet.



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