the Devil
See also: the devil
English
Adverb
- Alternative letter-case form of the devil.
- 1771, Amyas Griffith, The Swadler. A New Comedy of Three Acts., Clonmell: […] Edward Collins, page 38:
- What’s all this!---what’s here to do!---what the Devil are you all about!---Zounds! who do you want here, Mr. Trueman?
- 1982, The London Magazine, page 3:
- Who the Devil are you? Where the Devil do you come from / And what the Devil are you doing crusted up like a cloud-cuckoo?
- 2015, Dewey Lambdin, Kings and Emperors, Canelo, published 2020, →ISBN:
- “Whatever did happen to you, sir? How the Devil did ye get captured? Once the Dons ran off, we couldn’t find hide nor hair of you.”
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