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Deuced

Definition: Deuced

Deuced

Adjective

1. Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deuced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)


Synonyms: Deuced

Synonyms: blame (adj), blamed (adj), blasted (adj), blessed (adj), damn (adj), damned (adj), darned (adj), everlasting (adj), goddam (adj), goddamn (adj), goddamned (adj), infernal (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Deuced

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Pain

Adverb: painfully; adj; with pain; deuced.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Deuced

English words defined with "deuced": blame, blamed, blasted, blesseddamn, damned, darned, Deusedeverlastinggoddam, goddamn, goddamnedinfernal. (references)

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Use in Literature: Deuced

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The republic, a deuced fine folly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deuced

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

deuced

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Deuced

Language Translations for "deuced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), проклето (deucedly), проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked), дяволски (cursedly, demonic, deucedly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, plaguy, tarnal). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zatracený (blessed, bloody, blooming, confounded, damned, darned, stupid). (various references)

   

French

  

diablement (devilish), satané (devilish). (various references)

   

German

  

verteufelt (demonises, devilish, devilishly, fiendish, tricky). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megbabonázott (bewitched, enchanted, fey). (various references)

   

Italian

  

maledetto (accursed, accurst, blasted, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, devilishly, hexes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eucedday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

diabólico (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiend, mephistofelian, satanic), muito grande (extra large, slapping, thumping, very big, voluminous, whacking, whopping), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, terrific, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping), endiabrado (daemonic, demonic, devilish, impish, puckish). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

al naibii (confounded, cursed, damned, perishing, precious), al dracului, afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чертовский (bally, blinking, devilish, god-awful, goddamn, helluva), чертовски (confoundedly, devilishly, like fury, plaguy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vraški (devilish, impish), đavolski (devil, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, impish, ruddy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tremendo (awful, fearful, gross, terrific, thundering, tremendous, whopping). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jäkla (bally, blasted, blooming, cursed, cussed, damn, devilish, dratted, lousy, ruddy), förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, confounded, damn, damnable, damned, darned, devilish, dratted, flaming, perishing, plaguey, plaguy), förbålt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bir çok (a good many, umpteen), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), allah'ın belâsı (bother, bother it, confound it, cursed, damn, damned, darned, doggone, flaming, godforsaken, what a bind). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

страшенний (abysmal, almighty, arch-, blue, hideous, howling, infernal, precious, rabid, raging, right-down, terrible), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Deuced

Derivations

Words beginning with "deuced": deucedly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Deuced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dceue, deacde, decused, denced, deucer, deucex, deuche, diused, douced, doucer, duced, duece, dueche, dulcedo, educand. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Deuced

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deduce, educed.

Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-u"

-1 letter: ceded, deuce, educe.

-2 letters: cede, cued, deed, duce, dude.

-3 letters: cee, cud, cue, dee, dud, due, ecu.

-4 letters: de, ed.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-u"
 

+1 letter: cudweed, deduced, deduces, reduced, seduced.

 

+2 letters: bedunced, cudgeled, cudweeds, deciduae, decupled, decurved, deducted, deucedly, duckweed, educated, excluded, secluded, undecked.

 

+3 letters: beclouded, coendured, credendum, cudgelled, debauched, debouched, deciduate, decoupled, deducible, deductive, defocused, denounced, duckweeds, pedicured, peduncled, precluded, reinduced, scheduled, succeeded, undecided.

 

+4 letters: becudgeled, cuddlesome, decoloured, decoupaged, decussated, deductible, defocussed, destructed, documented, elucidated, fecundated, prejudiced, reeducated, reinducted, reproduced, secludedly, superceded, uncredited, undecadent, undeceived, undecideds, undeclared, underacted, undetected, undirected, uneducated, unrecorded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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