Meaning

1 senses

  1. Used as an intensifier.

    Why the dickens did he do that?

    It is cold as the dickens out here!

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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Synonyms

1 synonyms
the devil

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
thawtheA1theaterA1theatreA1theatrical

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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