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English

Etymology

From Old French desuser.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?jus/

Noun

disuse (uncountable)

1. The state of not being used; neglect.

   The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.

Derived terms

• disused

Translations

Verb

disuse (third-person singular simple present disuses, present participle disusing, simple past and past participle disused)

1. (transitive) To cease the use of.
   • 1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote [1]

     Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.

   • 1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, [2]

     The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.

2. (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.

   He was disused to hard work.

   • 1597, John Donne, "The Calm," lines 39-44, [3]

     Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, / Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine / Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst / Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, / I lose my end: for here as well as I / A desperate may live, and a coward die.

Anagrams

• issued

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?s/, /d??u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

1. (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
2. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
4. The number two.
5. (tennis) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
6. (baseball) A curveball.
7. A '32 Ford.
   • 1978, Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in Rod Action, p.26

1. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
2. (restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.
3. (Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement.

Synonyms

• (piece of excrement): See Thesaurus:defecation

Derived terms

• drop a deuce

Related terms

• (dice) ace, trey, cater, cinque, sice

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?s/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

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

Derived terms

• what the deuce

Translations

References

• (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• educe