the devil a one
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "making great chear with a good deal of vineger, the devil a one of them did forbear from his victuals, it was a triumphant and incomparable spectacle to see how they ravened and devoured."
- "[…] she wou’d have corrupted all their Wives; the Devil a one wou’d have made her own Butter, after being acquainted with her."
- "(He helps them on with the clothes.) There, the devil a one of them can know you now— […] you’re so nicely disguised,"
- "Whole volleys of muskets were level’d at him, But the devil a one ever graz’d e’en a limb,"
- "1912, George A. Birmingham, Priscilla’s Spies, New York: Hodder and Stoughton, G.H. Doran, Chapter 14, pp. 183-184, Jimmy says it’s hard to tell what she’d be after. He did think at the first go off that it might be cockles; but it’s not, for he took her to Carribee strand, where there’s plenty of them, and the devil a one she’d pick up."
- "The devil a one of me will ever set foot there."