Associations to the word «Dickens»
Noun
- Carol
- Charles
- Balzac
- Forster
- Tennyson
- Twist
- Pip
- Expectation
- Carlyle
- Austen
- Eliot
- Pathos
- Christmas
- Twain
- Novelist
- Oliver
- Hawthorne
- Dumas
- Fielding
- Caricature
- Nell
- Marley
- Poe
- Novel
- Ruskin
- Chime
- Adaptation
- Kingsley
- Shakespeare
- Traveller
- Chancery
- Edwin
- Debtor
- Bentley
- Browning
- Wordsworth
- Tiny
- Dickens
- Irving
- Andersen
- Nelly
- Melville
- Bret
- Tale
- Dora
- Sketch
- Collins
- Curiosity
- Installment
- Conan
- Biographer
- Illustrator
- Wills
- Chatham
- Lean
- Thoroughfare
- Browne
- Nicholas
- Doyle
- Portsmouth
- Humour
- Stevenson
- Admirer
- Serial
- Humphrey
- Cedric
- Seymour
- Byron
- Preface
- Dickinson
- Chapman
- Catherine
- Iq
- Nineteenth
- Paper
- Satire
- Portrayal
- Hearth
- Augustus
- Flynn
- Parody
- Darwin
- Meredith
- Gerald
Adjective
Verb
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.