Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

daresaying

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dare-say-ing
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

gerund of daresay: an act of venturing to say (as the speaker believes something is likely to be the case); the action of presuming or thinking that something is probable.

verb

present participle and gerund of daresay

Example Sentences

"A deal of good your daresaying will do me on Saturday, when old Sloper hauls me over the coals in his private office, [...]"
"Really great explorers would never be discouraged by the daresaying of a farmer, still less by his calling them names he ought not to."
"As philosopher Huw Price of the University of Sydney has reiterated, any reasoning that applies to the initial conditions should also apply to the final conditions, or we will be guilty of daresaying the very thing we were trying to prove."

Etymology

From daresay + -ing.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: daresay

Inflected Forms

daresayings (plural)

Questions

What does daresaying mean?: gerund of daresay: an act of venturing to say (as the speaker believes something is likely to be the case); the action of presuming or thinking that something is probable.
Where does daresaying come from?: From daresay + -ing.

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