dickens

Adjective, Noun

Dick=ens

WORDNET DICTIONARY

dickens(n = noun.communication) deuce, devil - a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say"

is a kind of exclaiming, exclamation

dickens(n = noun.person) charles dickens, charles john huffam dickens - English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870); Array

is a kind of author, writer

Derived form adjective dickensian₁

dickens, n. (usu. prec. by how, what, why, etc., the) colloq. (esp. in exclamations) deuce; the Devil (what the dickens are you doing here?).

Etymology

16th c.: prob. a use of the surname Dickens

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