derdoing

English

Etymology

See dere (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɜː(ɹ)ˈduːɪŋ/

Adjective

derdoing (comparative more derdoing, superlative most derdoing)

1. (obsolete) Doing daring or chivalrous deeds; derring-do.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:

     In derdoing armes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “derdoing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)