Deuceとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源 1

From 中期英語 dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.

発音

(Received Pronunciation)
- (non-yod-coalescence) IPA: /djuːs/
- (yod-coalescence) IPA: /d͡ʒuːs/
(General American) IPA: /dus/
(Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈdjʉs/, /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
韻: -uːs

名詞

deuce (plural deuces)

(card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

Synonym: two
- 1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers‎, performed by Tex Ritter:
  
  You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
(dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
(dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
The number two.
1. (Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement; number two.
2. (Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
  - 1988 December 25, Eric Peterson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 14:
    
    Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
(tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
(baseball) A curveball.
A 1932 Ford.
- 1973 January 5, “Blinded by the Light” (track 1), in Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., performed by Bruce Springsteen:
  
  And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.
- 1978, Joe Mayall, “Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy”, in Rod Action, page 26:
- 2012, Pat Ganahl, Lost Hot Rods II: More Remarkable Stories of How They Were Found, page 62:
  
  It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.
(in the plural) Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
(restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.
(slang, archaic) A twopence coin.
- 2010, James Lambie, The Story of Your Life, page 139:
  
  It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.
(euphemistic, slang) douche

参考

語源 2

Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).

発音

(英国発音) IPA: /djuːs/
(米国発音, Canada) IPA: /duːs/
韻: -uːs

名詞

deuce (plural deuces)

(epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

Alternative form: Deuce
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine:
  
  Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
  
  To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  
  "Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:
  
  Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"
Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).

We had a deuce of a time getting here.

派生語

deuced
the deuce you say
what the deuce

参照

(etymology) “deuce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

educe


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Deuceとは意味・読み方・使い方

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品詞ごとの意味や使い方

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変形一覧

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イディオムやフレーズ

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