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English
Adverb
the Devil (not comparable)
- Alternative letter-case form of the devil.
1771, Amyas Griffith, The Swadler. A New Comedy of Three Acts., Clonmell: Edward Collins, page 38:What’s all this!---what’s here to do!---what the Devil are you all about!---Zounds! who do you want here, Mr. Trueman?
1982, The London Magazine, page 3:Who the Devil are you? Where the Devil do you come from / And what the Devil are you doing crusted up like a cloud-cuckoo?
2015, Dewey Lambdin, Kings and Emperors, Canelo, published 2020, →ISBN:“Whatever did happen to you, sir? How the Devil did ye get captured? Once the Dons ran off, we couldn’t find hide nor hair of you.”
Proper noun
the Devil
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see the, Devil.