derring-doery

English

Etymology

From derring-do +‎ -ery.

Noun

derring-doery (uncountable)

1. (nonce-word) Derring-do.
   • 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, Gnome Press, part II: “Search By the Foundation”, chapter 11: “Stowaway”,

     He left Terminus in a sullen distemper. No one was at the port to see him off. […] He, Homir Munn, was risking his neck in derring-doery of the most outrageous sort, and yet he left alone.