Dickens

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal A severe reprimand or expression of anger: gave me the dickens for being late.
  • n. Informal Used as an intensive: What in the dickens is that?
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  • n. The devil.
  • n. In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The devil.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The deuce: used interjectionally, with the definite article (formerly sometimes with the indefinite).
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  • n. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
  • n. a word used in exclamations of confusion
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    author    writer    exclaiming    exclamation   
    Cross Reference
    to play the dickens    Dickensian   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    the heck    on earth    the hell    the fuck    the devil   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chickens    quickens    thickens   
     
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