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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a word used in exclamations of confusion;
- Example: "what the devil"
- Example: "the deuce with it"
- Example: "the dickens you say"
[syn: devil, deuce, dickens]

2. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870);
[syn: Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dickens \Dick"ens\, n. or interj. [Perh. a contr. of the dim.
   devilkins.]
   The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.]
   [1913 Webster]

         I can not tell what the dickens his name is. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dickens
    n 1: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil";
         "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" [syn: devil,
         deuce, dickens]
    2: English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social
       injustice (1812-1870) [syn: Dickens, Charles Dickens,
       Charles John Huffam Dickens]