2. Adjective. possessed of the Devil ¹
3. Adjective. grilled with a piquant sauce ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Devilled
1. devil [v] - See also: devil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devilled
Literary usage of Devilled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"putting into oven. Scalloped lobster may be baked in buttered scallop shells, or
in a buttered baking-dish. devilled Lobster. ..."
2. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"pound of ham, and was handing in his plate for a well devilled turkey's thigh,
his eye fell compassionately upon his fasting captain, and his heart opening ..."
3. The Life of Charles Lever by William John Fitzpatrick (1879)
"Blue-devilled." THE outward world supposed that Lever rilled a chair as easy as
was ever shaken by Rabelais, but it far from proved at all times enjoyable. ..."
4. Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant by Elizabeth H. Putnam (1869)
"devilled GOOSE. Take the legs and wings of cold roast goose, or any kind of cold
poultry ; broil them on a gridiron till heated through. ..."
5. Hotel Meat Cooking: Comprising Hotel and Restaurant Fish and Oyster Cooking by Jessup Whitehead (1901)
"In Lever's Tom Burke, one officer asks another to oome and take a devilled bone
and a kidney with him, and in numberless instances we find mentioned Indian ..."
6. Picturesque Dublin: Old and New by Frances A. Gerard (1898)
"Political Squibs :—" A List of the Pack;" "The Poor Be-devilled Viceroy."—Advertisement
Extraordinary. — Hacks. — Rats. — Lord Anglesey and the Ladies' ..."
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