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the dickens

adv

Etymology

See dickens.

Definitions

  1. Used as an intensifier.

    • Why the dickens did he do that?
    • It is cold as the dickens out here!
    • I cannot tell what (the dickens) his name is my husband had him of, what do you cal your Knights name ſirrah?

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see the, dickens; (euphemistic) the devil.

    • She can go to the dickens for what she said.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for the dickens. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA