Associations to the word «Dickens»

Wiktionary

DICKENS, noun. (euphemistic) The devil.
DICKENS, noun. In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
DICKENS, proper noun. A patronymic surname​.
DICKENS, proper noun. Charles Dickens, English novelist.

Dictionary definition

DICKENS, noun. A word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say".
DICKENS, noun. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats