deuse

English

Noun

deuse (plural deuses)

1. Obsolete form of deuce (“the Devil”).
   • 1847, Charles Lever, Jack Hinton, the Guardsman, page 92:

     “What the deuse is all this, my dear Hinton?” said he, as he grasped my hand in both of his.

See also

• deuse a vile (etymologically unrelated)

Latin

Participle

deūse

1. vocative masculine singular of deūsus

References

• deuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)