Definition of "deevil" [deevil]

• Eye dialect spelling of devil. (noun)

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• "I may be the deevil himsell for what ye ken; for he has power to come disguised like an angel of light; and besides he is a prime fiddler."
• "And when my gudesire came forward, Sir Robert, or his ghaist, or the deevil in his likeness, said,"
• "“Here, ye auld doited deevil,” said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable;"