Meaning

1 senses

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see the, dickens; (euphemistic) the devil.

    She can go to the dickens for what she said.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. It hurt like the dickens.

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  2. She's just as cute as the dickens!

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  3. It hurts like the dickens.

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  4. What the dickens?

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Origin

See dickens.

See dickens.

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Forms

plural: the dickenses
Singularthe dickens
Pluralthe dickenses

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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