deuce

English

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Etymology 1

Middle English dewes ‎(“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːs/, /d͡ʒuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /duːs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

deuce ‎(plural deuces)

1. (card games) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
2. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
4. The number two.
5. (tennis) A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two consecutive points.
6. (baseball) A curveball
7. A '32 Ford.
8. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
9. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
10. (slang) Excrement.

See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack	queen	king	joker

Translations

playing card

• Bulgarian: двойка (bg) f ‎(dvojka)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: D ‎(di²)

• Czech: dvojka (cs) f
• Dutch: twee (nl) f
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi), sorsa (fi)
• Icelandic: tvistur m
• Italian: due (it) m
• Japanese: デュース ‎(dyūsu)
• Malay: dius
• Navajo: aldóós

• Polish: dwójka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dois (pt) (2,4)
• Russian: дво́йка (ru) f ‎(dvójka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двојка f

  Latin: dvojka (sh) f

• Slovak: dvojka (sk) f
• Spanish: dos (es)
• Swedish: tvåa (sv) c

side of a dice with two spots

• Bulgarian: двойка (bg) f ‎(dvojka)
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi)
• Italian: due (it) m

• Japanese: デュース ‎(dyūsu)
• Norwegian: toer
• Polish: dwójka (pl) f
• Russian: дво́йка (ru) f ‎(dvójka)

cast of dice totalling two

• Finnish: kakkonen (fi)
• Polish: dwójka (pl) f

• Russian: дво́йка (ru) f ‎(dvójka)

number two

• Bulgarian: двойка (bg) f ‎(dvojka)
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi)
• French: deux (fr) m
• Italian: due (it) m
• Latin: duo (la) f
• Portuguese: dois (pt)
• Romanian: doi (ro) m
• Russian: дво́йка (ru) f ‎(dvójka)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двојка f

  Latin: dvojka (sh) f

• Slovak: dvojka (sk) f
• Spanish: dos (es)
• Swedish: tvåa (sv) c

tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points

• Catalan: iguals (ca) m pl
• Finnish: tasatilanne
• French: égalité (fr) f
• German: Einstand (de) m
• Italian: parità (it) f

• Polish: równowaga (pl) f
• Portuguese: iguais (pt)
• Russian: ра́вный счёт m ‎(rávnyj sčjot)
• Slovak: zhoda f
• Turkish: beraberlik (tr)

baseball: curveball

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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} двојка f

Etymology 2

Compare Late Latin dusius ‎(“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse ‎(“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus ‎(“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːs/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /duːs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

deuce ‎(plural deuces)

1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger

   Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)

Translations

Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger

• Bulgarian: дявол (bg) m ‎(djavol)
• Finnish: piru (fi)
• Polish: diabeł (pl) m anim, licho (pl) n

• Portuguese: diabos (pt), inferno (pt), demônio (pt)
• Russian: дья́вол (ru) m ‎(dʹjávol)
• Swedish: djävel (sv), djävul (sv) c, fan (sv) c

References

• (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Notes:

Anagrams

• educe