deuse

English

Noun

deuse (plural deuses)

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

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)

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