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Definition: Deuced |
DeucedAdjective1. 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: DeucedSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Adverb: painfully; adj; with pain; deuced. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deuced |
| English words defined with "deuced": blame, blamed, blasted, blessed ♦ damn, damned, darned, Deused ♦ everlasting ♦ goddam, goddamn, goddamned ♦ infernal. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The republic, a deuced fine folly |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deuced | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deuced": deucedly. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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