davil

English

Noun

davil

  1. Eye dialect spelling of devil.
    • 1988 April 1, Tom Valeo, “Anna Christie”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      After his wife died, he had sent her to live on a cousin's farm in Minnesota to keep her away from "that old davil sea," but she found trouble anyway, becoming a prostitute.

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