deuse
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
deuse (plural deuses)
- Obsolete form of deuce (“the Devil”).
- 1847, Charles Lever, Jack Hinton, the Guardsman, page 92:
- “What the deuse is all this, my dear Hinton?” said he, as he grasped my hand in both of his.
See also[edit]
- deuse a vile (etymologically unrelated)
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
deūse
References[edit]
- deuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)