devil
n 1: (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell [syn: Satan, Old Nick, the Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness]
2: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief [syn: fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 3: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" [syn: deuce, dickens] 4: a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard" [syn: hellion, heller] 5: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, demon, ogre] v 1: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe]
