diucs

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

diucs

  1. Euphemistic form of diabhal (“devil”).: deuce, dickens

Usage notes

Used primarily in the expressions m’anam don diucs! (“bless my soul!”, literally “my soul to the deuce!”)[2] and d’anam don diucs! (“what the deuce!”, literally “your soul to the deuce!”).[3] The latter is also found as th'anam don diucs in Munster Irish, and sometimes written phonetically as hanaman diucs.[4]

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
diucs dhiucs ndiucs
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 87
  2. Entries containing “diucs” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  3. Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diucs”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  4. “diucs”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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