Definition of devils Devils
/dɛˈvʌlz/ - [devulz] -
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Wiktionary 
- devils (Noun)
Plural of devil.
Part of speech
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| devil - an evil supernatural being | ||
| fiend, demon, daemon, daimon | ||
| evil spirit a spirit tending to cause harm | ||
| incubus a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women | ||
| succuba, succubus a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | ||
| devil - a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" | ||
| deuce, dickens | ||
| devil - a cruel wicked and inhuman person | ||
| monster, fiend, demon, ogre | ||
| disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable | ||
| devil - (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell | ||
| Satan, Old Nick, Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness | ||
| mohammedanism, muhammadanism, islam, islamism, muslimism the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; "Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion"; "the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion" | ||
| religious belief, religion, faith a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality" | ||
| devil - a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard" | ||
| hellion, heller | ||
| bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | ||
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| devil - coat or stuff with a spicy paste; "devilled eggs" | ||
| ready, cook, prepare, fix, make transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes" | ||
| cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | ||
| devil - cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" | ||
| annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe | ||
| displease give displeasure to | ||
| get under one's skin, get cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" | ||
| eat into, rankle, grate, fret gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" | ||
| chafe warm by rubbing, as with the hands | ||
| peeve cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful | ||
| ruffle pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric" | ||
| fret wear away or erode | ||
| chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, hassle, harass, plague, harry, molest, beset, provoke exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy" | ||
| antagonise, antagonize provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss" | ||
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Wiktionary
- devil (Noun)
A creature of hell. - devil (Noun)
The devil or the Devil The chief devil; Satan. - devil (Noun)
The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel. - devil (Noun)
A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child. - devil (Noun)
A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do. - devil (Noun)
Hell. - devil (Noun)
A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil . - devil (Noun)
A dust devil . - devil (Noun)
An evil or erring entity. - devil (Noun)
A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. - devil (Noun)
A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. - devil (Verb)
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. - devil (Verb)
To annoy or bother; to bedevil. - devil (Verb)
To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. - devil (Verb)
To grill with cayenne pepper ; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. - devil (Verb)
To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments. - devil (Verb)
To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- devil (n.)
The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. - devil (n.)
An evil spirit; a demon. - devil (n.)
A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. - devil (n.)
An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. - devil (n.)
A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. - devil (n.)
A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. - devil (v. t.)
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. - devil (v. t.)
To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Title given to the supernatural being, who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. -
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To make someone rather angry or impatient; to cause annoyance.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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dev′l, v.t. (cook.) to season highly and broil.—v.i. to perform another man's drudgery (esp. to devil for a barrister) -
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dev′l, n. the supreme spirit of evil, Satan: any evil spirit: a false god: a very wicked person: a fellow, as in 'Poor devil:' an expletive, in 'What the devil,' &c.—ns. Dev′ildom; Dev′iless; Dev′ilet; Dev′il-fish, a name for the fishing-frog or angler, for the giant-ray of the United States, and for other large and ugly fishes; Dev′il-in-the-bush, a garden flower, also called Love-in-a-mist.—adj. Dev′ilish, fiendish, malignant.—adv. (coll.) very: exceedingly.—adv. Dev′ilishly.—ns. Dev′ilism; Dev′ilkin.—adj. Dev′il-may-care, reckless, audacious.—ns. Dev′ilment; Dev′il-on-the-neck, an old instrument of torture; Dev′ilry; Dev′ilship; Dev′iltry; Dev′il-wor′ship, the worship of the devil, or of devils; Dev′il-wor′shipper.—Devil a bit, not at all; Devil of a mess, a very bad mess.—Devil's advocate, a name given to the Promoter of the Faith, an advocate at the papal court, whose duty it is to propose all reasonable objections against a person's claims to canonisation; Devil's bit, a popular name for scabious; Devil's books, playing-cards; Devil's coach-horse, a large dark-coloured beetle; Devil's dozen, thirteen (like baker's dozen); Devil's dung, a popular name for asafœtida; Devil's dust, shoddy made by a machine called the devil; Devil's own, a name given to the 88th Regiment in the Peninsular war, as also to the Inns of Court volunteers; Devil's snuff-box, the puff-ball, a kind of fungus; Devil's tattoo (see Tattoo); Devil to pay, serious trouble ahead—said to be from the difficulty of paying, or caulking, an awkward and inaccessible seam in a ship.—Cartesian devil (see Cartesian); Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing-office: a printer's errand-boy; Tasmanian devil, the ursine dasyure, a Tasmanian carnivore.—Play the devil with, to bring to utter ruin. [A.S. deóful, deófol—L. diabolus—Gr. diabolos, from diaballein, to throw across, to slander, from dia, across, and ballein, to throw; cf. Ger. teufel, Fr. diable, It. diavolo, Sp. diablo.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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devil
A sort of priming made by damping and bruising gunpowder.
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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devil
An old rascal mentioned in the Bible, now reported engaged to Mary McLane.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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A printer's errand-boy. Also a small thread in the king's ropes and cables, whereby they may be distinguished from all others. The Devil himself; a small streak of blue thread in the king's sails. The Devil may dance in his pocket; i.e. he has no money: the cross on our ancient coins being jocularly supposed to prevent him from visiting that place, for fear, as it is said, of breaking his shins against it. To hold a candle to the Devil; to be civil to any one out of fear: in allusion to the story of the old woman, who set a wax taper before the image of St. Michael, and another before the Devil, whom that saint is commonly represented as trampling under his feet: being reproved for paying such honour to Satan, she answered, as it was uncertain which place she should go to, heaven or hell, she chose to secure a friend in both places. That will be when the Devil is blind, and he has not got sore eyes yet; said of any thing unlikely to happen. It rains whilst the sun shines, the Devil is beating his wife with a shoulder of mutton: this phenomenon is also said to denote that cuckolds are going to heaven; on being informed of this, a loving wife cried out with great vehemence, 'Run, husband, run!' The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. a proverb signifying that we are apt to forget promises made in time of distress. To pull the Devil by the tail, to be reduced to one's shifts. The Devil go with you and sixpence, and then you will have both money and company. -
devil
The gizzard of a turkey or fowl, scored, peppered, salted and broiled: it derives its appellation from being hot in the mouth.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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Talk of the devil and he'll be sure to appear. -
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He that hath shipped the devil must make the best of him. -
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Give the devil his due. -
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Make not the devil blacker than he is. -
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He needs must go that the devil drives. -
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One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil. -
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The devil is not always at one door. -
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The Devil Was Sick, the Devil a Monk Would Be; The Devil Grew Well, the Devil a Monk Was He.
Wikipedia 
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In some religions, a devil is a bad spirit that tries to create problems for people. Some people also use the words "the Devil" or "Satan" for the most powerful devil. The word "devil" comes from the Greek word "diabolos" which means "someone who tells lies to hurt you". ("Diabolos" is translated to the English word "slanderer.") The Christian New Testament uses "diabolos" as a title for Satan, and so "The Devil" became another name for Satan in English.
In the Old Testament, there is the serpent and the shaitan, who may be two different characters. "Shaitan" in Hebrew means "adversary" - an enemy or opponent.
