<span class="searchmatch">devil's</span> <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> (dated, slang) A riot; a row. 1863, William G. Sewell, The Ordeal of Free Labor in the British West Indies, page 13: They are tied by...
delightless <span class="searchmatch">delightly</span> delightsome <span class="searchmatch">devil's</span> <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> duper's <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> duping <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> gardener's <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> Heart's <span class="searchmatch">Delight</span> idiot's <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> Idiot's <span class="searchmatch">Delight</span> lumps of...
falſe hereſies, ⁊ in their obſtinate frowardneſſe take ſuch a deueliſhe <span class="searchmatch">delight</span>, yͭ finally thei die therin as did Baifield, Bainã, ⁊ Tewkeſbury. 1880...
cried out, not with pain, but with <span class="searchmatch">delight</span>. ¶ “Oh,” he shouted, “it's a beauty, Vic! What a present from the Red <span class="searchmatch">Devil</span>! It's a Blighty, I'll bet a dollar...
three handed seven up with Bob Dixon and Jack Stone -- listen with seeming <span class="searchmatch">delight</span> to the rickety verses of Joe Delton, or indulge in a game of stick-frog...
Bernard Shaw, “Cæsar and Cleopatra”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The <span class="searchmatch">Devil’s</span> Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London:...
rather to be admired than imitated (transitive) To regard with wonder and <span class="searchmatch">delight</span>. c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First...
utterances, creative works, behavior or principles appropriate to the <span class="searchmatch">devil</span>. "The Fiend's <span class="searchmatch">Delight</span>" By Dod Grile The atrocities constituting this "cold collation"...
have a mans brains vvhimſied with his vvealth: […] 1648, Robert Herrick, “<span class="searchmatch">Delight</span> in Disorder”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London:...
(countable and uncountable, plural glees) (uncountable) Joy; happiness; great <span class="searchmatch">delight</span>, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. Synonyms:...