diable

[ dee-ah-bluh ]

adjective
  1. highly spiced; prepared with hot or piquant seasoning; deviled.

Origin of diable

1
French: literally, “devil” (see devil)

Words Nearby diable

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How to use diable in a sentence

  • It was formerly a practice in France to swear par le diable de Biterne.

  • When I pay ten shillings to hear you speak I want you to know how, que diable!

    The Tragic Muse | Henry James
  • One has one's form, que diable, and a mighty good thing that one has.

    The Tragic Muse | Henry James
  • Involuntarily his face softened; this pauvre diable gazed upon eternity with the calm eyes of a Socrates.

    Under the Rose | Frederic Stewart Isham
  • Sandy he's take one leel drink up at de stable, and he's go mad lak one diable.'

    Black Rock | Ralph Connor