deuseaville

English

Alternative forms
  • deasyville, deausaville, deuceaville, deuse a vile, deuseavile, dewsavell, dewse-a-vile, dewse-a-vyle, deyseaville, duceavil, deusavil

Etymology

Possibly from daisy +‎ -ville

Noun

deuseaville (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) The countryside.
    • 1707, “The Rum-Mort's Praise of Her Faithless Maunder”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896, page 36:
      Duds and cheats thou oft hast won, / Yet the cuffin quire couldst shun; / And the deuseaville didst run, / Else the chates had thee undone.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:deuseaville.

Derived terms
  • deuseaville stampers

References
  • Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “deuseaville”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC.
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 2, page 271
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