Word of the Day for Friday, January 20, 2012
deucedly \DOO-sid-lee\, adverb:
Devilishly; damnably.
In rejecting the Keystone Pipeline, the B.O. has shown what a deucedly bad President and leader that he is!
Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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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