deuce

English

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Etymology 1

French deux (“two”), 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) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice) 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 additional points.
6. (baseball) A curveball
7. (custom cars) A '32 Ford in plural, 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
8. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
9. (slang) Excrement.

Coordinate terms

• (card with two spots): (playing cards) playing card; ace, deuce, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker

Translations

playing card

• Bulgarian: двойка (bg) f (dvojka)
• Czech: dvojka (cs) f
• Dutch: twee (nl) f
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi), sorsa (fi)
• Icelandic: tvistur m
• Malay: dius
• Polish: dwójka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dois (pt) (2,4)

• Russian: двойка (ru) f (dvójka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двојка f

  Latin: dvojka (sh) f

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

side of a dice with two spots

• Bulgarian: двойка (bg) f (dvojka)
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi)
• Norwegian: toer

• Polish: dwójka (pl) f
• Russian: двойка (ru) f (dvójka)

cast of dice totalling two

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

• Russian: двойка (ru) f (dvójka)

number two

• Bulgarian: двойка (bg) f (dvojka)
• Finnish: kakkonen (fi)
• Latin: duo (la) f
• Portuguese: dois (pt)
• Romanian: doi (ro) m
• Russian: двойка (ru) f (dvójka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двојка f

  Latin: dvojka (sh) f

• Slovak: dvojka 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: pari (it) n

• Polish: równowaga (pl) f
• Portuguese: iguais (pt)
• Russian: равный счёт m (rávnyj š'ot)
• Slovak: zhoda f
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

baseball: curveball

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Translations to be checked

• 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, licho (pl) n

• Portuguese: diabos, inferno, demônio (pt)
• Russian: дьявол (ru) m (d’jávol)
• 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