derring-do

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (old-fashioned, humorous) brave actions, like those in adventure stories: tales of derring-do

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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derring-doEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus derring-doEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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derring-do