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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley