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Noun: dickens  di-kinz
  1. A word used in exclamations of confusion
    "the dickens you say"
    - devil, deuce
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

See also: Dickensian

Type of: author, exclaiming, exclamation, writer

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