What does dickens mean?
Dickens means (euphemistic) The devil..
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/ˈdɪkɪnz/ · noun
(euphemistic) The devil..
She can go to the dickens for what she said.
You scared the dickens out of me.
“Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”
Hugh considered saying, Then I guess I'll just have to kick you a few times instead, you frog son of a bitch. Then he thought of that fat bastard Keeton, handing him a pink slip for kicking up dickens in the local tavern.
And lastly, thanks to my children, Dutch and Tallulah, for allowing me to see the magic of everything I love about popular culture anew through their eyes. This one is for you two dickens!
Why the dickens did he do that?
We had the dickens of a row.
Use dickens when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dickens means (euphemistic) The devil..
Common synonyms include on earth, the hell, the devil, the heck.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She can go to the dickens for what she said.
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