devil

Plural: devils

Noun

• (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
• an evil supernatural being
• a word used in exclamations of confusion
  • "what the devil"
• a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
• a cruel wicked and inhuman person
• An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
• A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
• The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
• A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
• A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
• Hell.
• A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
• A printer's assistant.
• A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
• A dust devil.
• A barren, unproductive and unused area.
• A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
• A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
• A Tasmanian devil.
• An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
• Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).

Verb

Verb Forms: deviled, deviling, devils, devilled, devilling

• To prepare food, typically meat, with pungent seasoning.
• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
• coat or stuff with a spicy paste
  • "devilled eggs"
• To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
• To annoy or bother.
• To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
• To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
• To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
• To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:
• 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.
• To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.

Name

• The chief devil; Satan.

Examples

• devil strip
• He vowed to devil his opponents with unexpected plays, making every move a spicy challenge.
• She is having a devil of a time fixing it.
• She's going to devil four dozen eggs for the picnic.
• That math problem was a devil.
• The devil in me wants to let him suffer.
• Those two kids are devils in a toy store.
• What in the devil is that?
• What the devil is that?
• You can go to the devil for all I care.

Synonyms

annoy, Beelzebub, bother, chafe, daemon, daimon, demon, deuce, dickens, fiend, get at, get to, gravel, heller, hellion, irritate, Lucifer, monster, nark, nettle, ogre, Old Nick, Prince of Darkness, rag, rile, Satan, the Tempter, vex, Aduwallah, Adversary, Al-Shaytaan, Antichrist, Ash-Shaytan, Azazel, Beast, Devil, Diabolus, Dragon, Enemy, Evil One, Father of Lies, Gog, Iblis, Idioms:, Jack Ketch, Mephistopheles, Old Gentleman, Old Hairy, Old Harry, Old One, Old Scratch, Old Serpent, Prince of Demons, Prince of Evil, Sam Scratch, Serpent, Son of the Dawn, aggravate, antagonize, archfiend, bastard, bedevil, bitch, bogey, boil someone's piss, botherate, bug, bugger, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, cosmocrat, cow, deceiver, devil, diablo, disgruntle, exasperate, frustrate, fuck, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, heck, hell, imp, irk, jazz, leviathan, lord of the flies, molest, mommick, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, printer's devil, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rascal, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, scamp, scoundrel, shaitan, sod, sting, stinker, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, wind up

Antonyms

God, angel, cakewalk, conscience, god, piece of cake, saint

Related Words

Al-Shaytaan, Lucifer, Satan, angel, daeva, demon, diablo, diabolo, enemy, ghoul, jinn, nasnas

Anagrams of devil