derring

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛɹɪŋ/

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• Homophone: daring (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛɹɪŋ

derring (comparative more derring, superlative most derring)

1. (obsolete) daring
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed.

• derring-do

• “derring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Girdner, Grinder, grinder, red ring, regrind