EGAVE

dickens

About 3.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The devil.
    She can go to the dickens for what she said.
  2. noun A disturbance or row.
  3. noun Used as an intensifier in the phrase the dickens; see that entry.
    Why the dickens did he do that?

Similar words

devil deuce mischief blazes heck hell billy-o blue blazes goodness gracious

Often followed by

and was had in is to wrote as has

Word family

Boz Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens Dickens Dickensian dickenses

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