Dickens Definition

dĭkənz
noun
A reprimand or expression of anger.
Gave me the dickens for being late.
American Heritage
Devil; deuce.
What the dickens is that about?
Webster's New World
Used as an intensive.
What in the dickens is that?
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • charles dickens
  • Charles John Huffam Dickens
  • deuce
  • devil

Origin of Dickens

  • Alteration of devil (influenced by the name Dickens)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dickens Sentence Examples

  • That would be a dickens to solve.

  • I'd have beat the dickens out of 'em if they hadn't jumped me!

  • It scared the dickens out of me, and I didn't go outside for a week.

  • While I can buy all this as possible, it would be the dickens to prove it.

  • Great numbers of European and American authors were rendered into JapaneseCalderon, Lytton, Disraeli, Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, Turgueniev, Carlyle, Daudet, Emerson, Hugo, Heine, De Quincey, Dickens, Krner, Goethetheir name is legion and their influence upon Japanese literature is conspicuous.

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