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deuce
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Definition:euphemism for the devil
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"No more I would," cried the squire. "Had Livesey not been here I should have seen you to the deuce. As it is, I have heard you. I will do as you desire, but I think the worse of you."
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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“Ah, the governess!” he repeated; “deuce take me, if I had not forgotten! The governess!”
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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“And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman. Simon & Schuster
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"And where the deuce ha' you been?" was Mrs. Joe's Christmas salutation,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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