deuced

[ doo-sid, dyoo-; doost, dyoost ]

adjective

1. devilish; confounded; damned.

adverb

1. deucedly.

deuced

/ ˈdjuːsɪd; djuːst /

adjective

1. intensifier, usually qualifying something undesirable damned; confounded

   he's a deuced idiot

adverb

1. (intensifier)

   deuced good luck

Derived Forms

• ˈdeucedly, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of deuced¹

First recorded in 1775–1785; deuce ² + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Well, it may be all right for you; but it seems deuced uncomfortable to me.

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I feel I haven't explained properly how sorry I am, but it's so deuced hard in a letter.

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It is a good thing,—a deuced good thing! and I promise you, if I were a marrying man, you 'd have a competitor.

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"Faith! then, Master Fred, I was deuced near doing it,—so near, that when I came away I scarcely knew whether I had or had not done so."

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There had been boating and swimming and tennis and "a deuced pretty girl" down there at the resort where he had been recuperating, and yet he was glad to be back.

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