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the dick·ens
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the dickensadverb
The devil.
She can go to the dickens for what she said.
the dickensadverb
Used as an intensifier.
Why the dickens did he do that?
Etymology: See dickens.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of the dickens in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of the dickens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of the dickens in a Sentence
For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2:
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
We are trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms, not the disease, the disease isn’t the Second Amendment.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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