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• DEUCE (a corruption of the Fr. deux, two)

DEUCE (a corruption of the Fr. deux, two)  , a See also:

• TERM

term applied to the " two " of any suit of See also:

• CARDS, PLAYING

cards, or of See also:

• DICE (plural of die, O. Fr. de, derived from Lat. dare, to give)

dice . It is also a term used in See also:

• TENNIS (sometimes called royal tennis, and, in America, court tennis)

tennis when both sides have each scored three points in a See also:

• GAME

game, or five See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games in a set; to win the game or set two points or games must then be won consecutively . The earliest instances in See also:

• ENGLISH

English of the use of the See also:

• SLANG

slang expression " the See also:

• DEUCE (a corruption of the Fr. deux, two)

deuce," in exclamations and the like, date from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The meaning was similar to that of " See also:

• PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague " or " See also:

• MISCHIEF

mischief " in such phrases as " plague on you," " mischief take you " and the like . The use of the word as an See also:

• EUPHEMISM (from Gr. eiiidirl sos, having a sound of good omen; et)

euphemism for " the See also:

• DEVIL (Gr. &a,3oXos, " slanderer," from &ctflisXX sty, to slander)

devil " is later . According to the New English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary the most probable derivation is from a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German das daus, i.e. the " deuce " in dice, the lowest and therefore the most unlucky throw . The personification, with a consequent See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of gender, to der daus, came later . The word has also been identified with the name of a See also:

• GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant or goblin in See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology .