adj. (common).—Devilish; excessive; confounded. Also adverbially. [From DEUCE (q.v.) + ED.]
1836. M. SCOTT, The Cruise of the Midge, vol. I. [ed. 1860], p. 160. Quacco all this while was twisting and turning himself, and, although evidently in a DEUCED quandary, trying to laugh the affair off as a joke.
