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Deuce vs Douce - What's the difference?

deuce | douce |

As a noun deuce

is a card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

As an adjective douce is

sweet, nice, pleasant.

deuce

English

(wikipedia deuce)

Etymology 1

(etyl) , from (etyl) deus, from (etyl) duo.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cards) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  • (dice) A side of a die with two spots.
  • (dice) A cast of dice totalling two.
  • The number two.
  • (tennis) A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two additional points.
  • (baseball) A curveball
  • (custom cars) A '32 FordGeisert, Eric. "The California Spyder", in Street Rodder'', 8/99, p.34; Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in ''Rod Action , 2/78, p.26. in plural, 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
  • (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
  • (slang) Excrement.
    • Coordinate terms
    * (card with two spots)

    Etymology 2

    Compare , from (etyl) deus (compare (deity).)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger
    • Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)

    References

    * (etymology) * Notes:

    Anagrams

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    douce

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Sweet, nice, pleasant.
  • (dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 27:
    • what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?
  • * 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 145:
    • If Fabre, for example, were elected to the Academy tomorrow, you would see his lust for social revolution turning overnight into the most douce and debonair conformity.
  • * 1996 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘The Story of a Recluse’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 271:
    • So what strong lord of misrule can preside in this douce , commercially respectable, late 19th century city where even religious fanaticism reinforces un adventurous mediocrity?

    Derived terms

    * doucely * douceness ----