deuseaville, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

deuseaville n.

also deasyville, deausaville, deuceaville, dewsavell, dewse-a-vile/-vyle, deyseaville, duceavil, deusavil

[-ville sfx¹. DSUE suggests a corruption of daisy-ville but dewse= deuce = the devil and thus a generic negative; given that London, the big city, is Rum ville n. (1), lit. ‘good town’, might not the country, its opposite, be ‘bad town’?]

(UK Und.) the countryside.

c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 84: dewse a vyle the countrey.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching [as cit. c.1566].
1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: And when we bing back: and when we come backe. To the Dewse-a-vile: into the Country. We will filch some duddes: we will filch some clothes.
1611		Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: We mill in deuse a vile.
1612		Dekker Canting Song O per se O O1: This Doxie Dell, can cut bien whids, and wap well for a win And Prig and cloy so benshiply all the Deusea-vile within.
1627		M. Drayton Nymphidia in Noyes Anthol. of Fairy Poetry (1909) 9: Olde Chavcer doth of Topas tell, / Mad Rablais [sic] of Pantagruell / A latter third of Deusavil.
1637		Dekker Canting Song in Eng. Villainies (8th edn) O3: [To] Deuse-a-vile didst runne, else the Chates had thee undone.
1648		Dekker Canters Dict. Eng. Villainies (9th edn).
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 45: [as cit. 1612].
a.1674		‘A Wenches complaint for . . . her lusty Rogue’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 17: [as cit. 1637].
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams, [...] Deusea-vile, the Country.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1703		Hell Upon Earth 5: When we bien back in the Duceavil, then we will flesh some Duds off the Ruffmans.
1714		A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 209: He taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him [...] Deuse-avil, the Country.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: Five Rum-padders are rub’d in the Darkmans out of the Whit, and are pik’d into the Deusea-vile: Five Highway-men in the night broke Newgate, and are gone into the Country.
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 117: The Country Deasyville.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 16: The Country – Deausaville.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Deusea ville, the country.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant n.p.: deysea ville the country.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Flash Dict.
1859		‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 98: I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn’t pad the hoof for a single darkman’s without his bloss to keep him from getting pogy.

In compounds

deuseaville stampers (n.) (also deausavilla-stampers) [SE stamp/stampers n. (1)]

(UK Und.) members of a criminal gang who wander the country roads and frequent country inns in the hope of picking up information about possible robberies.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) 172: Duseavile-Stampers Country Carriers.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 205: Deausavile, the country, Deausavile-stampers, i.e., country-carriers.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 16: Carriers – Deausavilla-stampers.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Deusea ville stampers, the country.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.