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Noun: dickens  di-kinz
Usage: informal
  1. A word used in exclamations of confusion
    "the dickens you say";
    - devil [informal], deuce [informal]
Noun: Dickens  di-kinz
  1. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
    - Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens

Derived forms: dickenses

Type of: author, exclaiming, exclamation, writer

Encyclopedia: Dickens, Maryland