dickens (n.)

  1. a word used in exclamations of confusion; what the devil; the deuce with it; the dickens you say

    [ Syn: devil , deuce ]

  2. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

    [ Syn: dickens , charles dickens , charles john huffam dickens ]

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