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Scots
Noun
deevil (plural deevils)
- Alternative form of deil
1881, Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, The Open Door, and the Portrait. (in English):If the deevil himsel was in the auld hoose, I have no interest in 't one way or another—" "Sandy, hold your peace!" cried his wife imperatively. "
1912, O. Douglas, Olivia in India (in English):The last I saw of her she had seized the khansamah's young assistant and was shouting at him, "Chokra—ye impident little black deevil, will you tell this moment, has there been an accident?"
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Etymology
From Middle English devil, dele, from Old English dēofol, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul.
Pronunciation
Noun
deevil
- devil
- Synonyms: feand, goul
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33