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单词 deviled
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devil

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noun

dev·​il ˈde-vᵊl How to pronounce devil (audio)
 dialectal  ˈdi-
1
often capitalized : the personal supreme spirit of evil often represented in Christian belief as the tempter of humankind, the leader of all apostate angels, and the ruler of hell
usually used with the
often used as an interjection, an intensive, or a generalized term of abuse
what the devil is this?the devil you say!
2
: an evil spirit : demon
3
a
: an extremely wicked person : fiend
b
archaic : a great evil
4
: a person of notable energy, recklessness, and dashing spirit
also : one who is mischievous
those kids are little devils today
5
: fellow
usually used in the phrases poor devil, lucky devil
6
a
: something very trying or provoking
having a devil of a time with this problem
b
: severe criticism or rebuke : hell
used with the
I'll probably catch the devil for this
c
: the difficult, deceptive, or problematic part of something
the devil is in the details
7
: dust devil
8
Christian Science : the opposite of Truth : a belief in sin, sickness, and death : evil, error

devil

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verb

deviled or devilled; deviling or devilling ˈde-və-liŋ How to pronounce devil (audio)
ˈdev-liŋ

transitive verb

1
: to season highly
deviled eggs
2
: tease, annoy
Phrases
between the devil and the deep blue sea
: faced with two equally objectionable alternatives
devil to pay
: severe consequences
used with the
there'll be the devil to pay if we're late

Synonyms

Noun

  • archfiend
  • Beelzebub
  • fiend
  • Lucifer
  • Old Nick
  • Satan
  • serpent
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Example Sentences

Noun She is a tricky devil, so be careful. Those kids can be little devils sometimes. He's such a lucky devil that he'll probably win the lottery someday.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Slaughterhouse worker Alex dreams of becoming a musician like his father Lázaro, who is said to have made a pact with the devil. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022 In one incident in 1679, for example, six people labeled the Bo’ness Witches were accused of meeting with the devil. Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022 In one incident in 1679, for example, six people labeled the Bo’ness Witches were accused of meeting with the devil. Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 23 June 2022 Deals with the devil have a habit of turning out badly, but Jabez is fortunate to have the great populist orator and legislator Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) on his side. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022 In Sweden, popular folklore states that at Easter, the witches all fly away on their broomsticks to feast and dance with the devil on the legendary island of Blåkulla, in the Baltic Sea. Tok Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022 Some Ukrainians made pacts with the devil in World War II: almost 100,000 of them enrolled in the Waffen-SS as volunteers, aiding Nazi Germany in purging the region of Jews. Cristina Florea, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022 Collins’ wife isn’t an innocent ensnared so much as a person slowly realizing the terms of her deal with the devil weren’t really so favorable. Kate Knibbs, Wired, 18 Mar. 2022 Of course, making a deal with a drug dealer is like making a deal with the devil. Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2022
Verb
Highlights include a variety of cheese, smoked salmon, prosciutto, deviled egg salad, biscuits, bagels and baguettes and cinnamon rolls. Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020 For $60, the family-sized meal includes a savory galette, homemade brioche with plum jam and French butter, Bayonne ham and pickles, miso deviled eggs, fresh fruit and a spring salad with wine and Bloody Mary or mimosa kits available for extra. Michael Russell, oregonlive, 6 May 2020 Those eggs now can be transformed into egg salad and deviled eggs. oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2020 On the menu: Dragon’s Eggs (spicy deviled eggs) and Red Wedding cake, among other bites. Randi Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019 Drizzle each deviled egg with aioli and sprinkle with additional Sweet & Spicy Sriracha Lime seasoning. Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 26 Dec. 2019 The eggs — which were peeled, hard-boiled, and packaged in plastic pails of various sizes at the facility — may have been sold to food service operators and restaurants to make ready-to-eat dishes such as egg salad and deviled eggs. Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019 Usually there will be bagels and lox, tuna salad, egg salad or hard-cooked or deviled eggs, noodle kugel, some sort of vegetable like cole slaw or cucumber salad, fruit, and then small pastries like rugelach or mandel bread or the like for dessert. Stacey Ballis, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019 The menu includes ratatouille with poached eggs and speck, deviled eggs with pork belly rillettes, and avocado toast with six-minute egg. Hadley Tomicki, latimes.com, 24 June 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English devel, del, dule, going back to Old English dēofol, dīoful, going back to West Germanic *diuvul- (whence also Old Frisian diūvel, diōvel, Old Saxon diuƀal, Middle Dutch duvel, Old High German tiuval, tiufal), probably borrowed from an early Romance outcome of Late Latin diabolus "the Devil," borrowed from Greek diábolos (New Testament, Septuagint, as a rendering of Hebrew śāṭān satan), earlier, "accuser, backbiter, slanderer," agentive derivative of diabállein "to take across, put through, set at variance, attack (a person's character), accuse, slander," from dia- dia- + bállō, bállein "to reach by throwing, let fly, strike, put, place," going back to earlier *gwəl-n-ō or *gwəl-i̯-ō, perhaps going back to an Indo-European base *gwelh1-

Note: The standard English pronunciation of devil with the outcome of a short vowel presumably reflects shortening of the Old English dipththong -ēo-/-īo- in syncopated forms, as the nominative plural dēoflas. The early Modern English form divel (as in Shakespeare), preserved in regional and dialectal speech in both Britain and the U.S., shows Middle English shortening of original ẹ̄ to i. Forms such as Middle English dele and early Scots dele show loss of v before a syllable ending in a liquid. — Greek bállein and its many prefixed forms are rich in nominal derivatives, usually with o-grade (as in diábolos, perhaps secondarily agentive, after the adjective diábolos "slanderous, backbiting") or with zero grade blē- (going back to *gwl̥h1-C-). That the original consonant was a labiovelar is assured by the Arcadian form esdellō, with e-grade, corresponding to Greek ekballō "expel, let fall." Despite its thoroughly Indo-European formal properties, bállein has no certain cognates outside Greek.

Verb

derivative of devil entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

devil

noun

dev·​il ˈde-vəl How to pronounce devil (audio)
1
often capitalized : the most powerful spirit of evil
2
: an evil spirit : demon, fiend
3
: a wicked or cruel person
4
: an attractive, mischievous, or unfortunate person
a handsome devil
poor devils

deviled

verb

variants or devilled
past tense of devil
as in grated

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • grated
  • gnawed
  • irritated
  • tormented
  • bedeviled
  • exasperated
  • persecuted
  • riled
  • aggravated
  • nettled
  • annoyed
  • rasped
  • vexed
  • irked
  • chafed
  • troubled
  • rankled
  • put out
  • piqued
  • worried
  • dunned
  • dogged
  • peeved
  • galled
  • roiled
  • inconvenienced
  • fretted
  • afflicted
  • beleaguered
  • got
  • maddened
  • distressed
  • bugged
  • vext
  • disturbed
  • infuriated
  • bothered
  • harassed
  • enraged
  • inflamed
  • beset
  • hassled
  • besieged
  • intruded (upon)
  • pestered
  • chivvied
  • provoked
  • plagued
  • incensed
  • chivied
  • outraged
  • agitated
  • angered
  • antagonized
  • obtruded
  • butted in
  • enflamed
  • perturbed
  • invaded
  • cut in (on)
  • encroached
  • infringed
  • trespassed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • forgot
  • left
  • slighted
  • ignored
  • disregarded
  • obliged
  • appeased
  • pleased
  • disarmed
  • delighted
  • satisfied
  • gratified
  • contented
  • comforted
  • conciliated
  • placated
  • mollified
  • gladdened
  • consoled
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