Word of the Day for Friday, January 20, 2012
deucedly \DOO-sid-lee\, adverb:
Devilishly; damnably.
When I went in I had seen that there was a deucedly pretty girl sitting in that particular seat, so I had taken the next one.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, "Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories "
It's most important. You will put me in a deucedly awkward position if you don't.
-- C. S. Lewis, "The Magician's Nephew"
Deucedly is related to the word deuce which refers to the face of a die with one dot, as in "to roll deuces." It comes from the Latin word for two, duos. In the mid-1600s, it became associated with bad luck, probably because it was the lowest score you could get when playing dice.
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