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dooce

/duːs/

dooce is the pronunciation spelling of deuce.

dooce is the eye dialect spelling of deuce.

Meaning of deuce

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

  1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
    • You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter
    Synonyms:
    two
  2. A side of a die with two spots.
  3. A cast of dice totalling two.
  4. (Canada, US, slang) A bowel movement (the event or the result).
  5. (Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
    • Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.1988 December 25, Eric Peterson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 14
  6. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.

See all 16 meanings of deuce

Forms of dooce

pluraldooces

Origin of dooce

Respelling representing the pronunciation of deuce in an accent with yod dropping; for speakers with this kind of accent (such as the majority of American English speakers), this spelling would constitute eye dialect since it is identical to their pronunciation of the standard spelling.

Questions about dooce

What is dooce the pronunciation spelling of?
Dooce is the pronunciation spelling of deuce.
How do you pronounce dooce?
Dooce is pronounced /duːs/.

Words near dooce in the dictionary

  1. doobries
  2. doobry
  3. doobs
  4. doobt
  5. dooby
  6. dooce
  7. dooced
  8. doocedly
  9. dooces
  10. doocot
  11. doocots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dooce (page history and authors); deuce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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