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deuced, a. colloq. or slang.|djuːst, ˈdjuːsɪd|
Also 8 duced, 9 (humorously) doosed, doosid.
[f. deuce2 + -ed2; app. after ppl. adjs. like confounded, cursed, damned, etc.]
Plaguy, confounded; ‘devilish’; expressing impatient dislike, or as a mere emphatic expletive.
1782E. N. Blower G. Bateman II. 215 Wife puts me into sitch a duced passion sometimes. Ibid. III. 21 What a duced pother thee art in, Captain! 1791F. Burney Diary 4 June, If it was not for that deuced tailor, I would not stir. 1819Byron Juan i. clxvii, When we call our old debts in At sixty years..And find a deuced balance with the devil. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow I. ii. 18 She's a deuced deal cleverer than lots of men. 1887Poor Nellie 57 That's why I came off in such a deuced hurry.
b. Often adverbially: = next.
1779F. Burney Diary 20 Oct., A clever fellow..got a deuced good understanding. 1840Thackeray Bedford-Row Consp. i, She's a deuced fine woman! 1866A. Trollope Claverings xi, ‘Upon my word she's a doosed good-looking little thing’, said Archie. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 245 She's so deuced obstinate. |