Read full poem →And when I asked him what the deuce he meant
By doing that, he only looked at me
Dictionary Entry
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. deucetake deucedeuce littledeuce double
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Poetry examples for “deuce”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And cavill’d at his image in the flood. 30
‘The deuce confound,’ he cries, ‘these drumstick shanks,
They never have my gratitude nor thanks;
Read full poem →O why the deuce should I repine,
And be an ill foreboder?