daresome
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daresome
- Characterised or marked by daring
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 177:
- Pa was coming along with that kind of daresome and hangdog look all at once like when he has been up to something he knows ma aint [sic] going to like...
- 2007, Bobbie Ann Mason, Nancy Culpepper: Stories:
- Lila's uncle found out he was hanging around and tried to scare him away, but Spence was daresome and he flirted openly with her, slowing down her work.
- 2014, Marvin Schwartz, We Wanna Boogie:
- “It was daresome for a strange woman to come into that place,” he said. “Somebody tried to get under that dress tail before she got out the door.”