Synonyms for daredevil
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dair-dev-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛərˌdɛv əl |
Définition of daredevil
Origin :- 1794, "recklessly daring person," from dare (v.) + devil (n.). The devil might refer to the person, or the sense might be "one who dares the devil (cf. scarecrow, pickpocket, cutthroat). As an adjective, from 1832.
- noun thrill-seeker
- He was a daredevil, who had taken his life in his hands a hundred times.
- Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
- The audacity of his daredevil recklessness was become a proverb.
- Extract from : « A Texas Ranger » by William MacLeod Raine
- There was a daredevil gleam in her lamps which set my carbureter a-splutter.
- Extract from : « Bizarre » by Lawton Mackall
- It was the most marvelous instance of daredevil bravery I ever witnessed.
- Extract from : « Thirty Years on the Frontier » by Robert McReynolds
- The latter named them "Daredevil" and "Wildcat," and began to break them.
- Extract from : « White Dandy; or, Master and I » by Velma Caldwell Melville
- As he flew by he shouted in his daredevil way, "Here's trouble, cowboys!"
- Extract from : « Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp » by Will C. Barnes
- It is necessary to be a daredevil in order to go to the end.
- Extract from : « Battle Studies » by Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
- Do you mean to say you really used to do these daredevil feats?
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Sally » by P. G. Wodehouse
- He would no longer be William—the Red Indian, the pirate, the daredevil.
- Extract from : « Just William » by Richmal Crompton
- A daredevil, in meeting the fiend, would not shrink from him, but would defy him.
- Extract from : « The English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
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