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A brief, confident trip into unfamiliar territory, often before realizing you were unprepared.
means A short venture or attempt into an activity, place, or field you don't normally operate in.
from From Middle English 'forrayen,' meaning to pillage or raid, which came from Old French 'forrer' (to forage), rooted in 'fuerre,' meaning fodder or straw — the stuff raiders were often after. The word started as a literal armed raid for supplies, then over centuries softened into any quick incursion into new territory, military plunder giving way to metaphorical dabbling.
- origin
- from forayer, old term for raider
- usage shift
- once meant armed raid, now means ambitious dabbling
- connotation
- implies boldness without commitment
- common pairing
- almost always into something, never out