Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dickens"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dickens \Dick"ens\, n. or interj. [Perh. a contr. of the dim.
devilkins.]
The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.]
I can not tell what the dickens his name is. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dickens
n 1: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"
or "the deuce with it" or "the dickens you say" [syn: {devil},
{deuce}]
2: English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social
injustice (1812-1870) [syn: {Dickens}, {Charles Dickens},
{Charles John Huffam Dickens}]
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