doosed

English

Alternative forms

• dooced

Adverb

doosed (comparative more doosed, superlative most doosed)

1. (degree, dated) Eye dialect spelling of deuced.
   • c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings‎^[1]:

     "Upon my word she's a doosed good-looking little thing," said Archie, coming up to him, after having also shaken hands with her; — "doosed good-looking, I call her."

   • 1872, Laurence William M. Lockhart, Fair to see‎^[2], page 149:

     I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare.

   • 1938, G.B. Lancaster (Edith Joan Lyttleton), Promenade‎^[3], page 143:

     Accepted me, did she? Doosed awkward, that. I thought she had more sense.

Anagrams

• dodoes