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Literature | Devil's Own (CONNAUGHT BOYS.) The 88th Foot. So called by General Picton from their bravery in the Peninsular War, 1809-1814. Applied also to the Inns of Court Volunteers, the members of which are lawyers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Screenplays | Tell me it is not the Devil's own spell. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Devil's Own (1916) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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Expression using "DEVIL'S OWN": he has the devil's own luck. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "DEVIL'S OWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | londoni ügyvédi karból alakult, lövészszázad, 88-ik gyalogezred. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | evil'sday ownay i-a pus dumnezeu mânã în cap (he has the devil's own luck, he's a lucky dog, he's born with a silver spoon in his mouth). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-d-e-i-l-n-o-s-v-w" | |
-2 letters: oldwives. | |
-3 letters: indoles, swindle, windles. | |
-4 letters: devils, devons, disown, donsie, dovens, dowels, dwines, eloins, endows, envois, indole, indols, indows, insole, inwove, lesion, levins, livens, lodens, nevoid, noised, novels, nowise, oldies, oleins, olives, onside, ovines, siloed, sloven, slowed, snivel, snowed, soiled, solved, swived, swivel, videos, voiles, vowels, widens, wields, windle, winoes, wolves, wovens. | |
-5 letters: deils. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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