Dickens

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  • noun. A reprimand or expression of anger.
  • noun. Used as an intensive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The deuce: used interjectionally, with the definite article (formerly sometimes with the indefinite).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The devil.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The devil.
  • noun. In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
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  • noun. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
  • noun. a word used in exclamations of confusion
    • Word Usage
    "What the dickens is the government trying to do to the US?"
    cross-reference
    Dickensian  to play the dickens  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    author  exclaiming  exclamation  writer  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chickens  quickens  thickens  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    on earth  the devil  the fuck  the heck  the hell  
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