deuce
English
Etymology 1
Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo.
Noun
deuce (plural deuces)
- (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
- (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
- (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
- The number two.
- (tennis) A tie in which one player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A '32 Ford.
- 1978, Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in Rod Action, p.26
- (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
- (restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.
- (Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement.
Synonyms
- (piece of shit): See Thesaurus:defecation
Derived terms
Translations
playing card
side of a dice with two spots
cast of dice totalling two
number two
tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points
baseball: curveball
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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.)
Noun
deuce (plural deuces)
- (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine:
- Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
- To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.
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Derived terms
Translations
Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger
References
- (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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