What does devil a bit mean?

devil a bit

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

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Synonym of not at all.

Colloquial; Dated

"“Devil a bit, Ma’am,” said the Major. “We couldn’t afford it. Unless the world was peopled with J.B.’s—tough and blunt old Joes, Ma’am, plain red herrings with hard roes, Sir—we couldn’t afford it. It wouldn’t do.”"

not at all

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