deuseaville
English
Alternative forms
- deasyville, deausaville, deuceaville, deuse a vile, deuseavile, dewsavell, dewse-a-vile, dewse-a-vyle, deyseaville, duceavil, deusavil
Etymology
Possibly from daisy + -ville
Noun
deuseaville (uncountable)
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) The countryside.
- 1707, “The Rum-Mort's Praise of Her Faithless Maunder”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 36:
- Duds and cheats thou oft hast won, / Yet the cuffin quire couldst shun; / And the deuseaville didst run, / Else the chates had thee undone.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:deuseaville.
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Derived terms
- deuseaville stampers
References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “deuseaville”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 2, page 271