NOUN | communication | dickens, devil, deuce | a word used in exclamations of confusion |
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person | Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens | English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) |
Sounds | dih'kahnz | |
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Rhymes | Aleutians ... transactions: 47 rhymes with ahnz... |
Meaning | A word used in exclamations of confusion. | |
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Example | "the dickens you say" | |
Synonyms | devil, deuce | |
Broader | exclamation, exclaiming | An abrupt excited utterance |
Spanish | adiós, caramba, caray, cáspita, demonio, demonios, diablos, diantre | |
Catalan | diable, diantre, dimoni, dimonis, redéu, redimoni, redimonis, vatua l'olla, vatua |
Meaning | English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870). | |
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Synonyms | Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens | |
Instance of | writer, author | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
Spanish | Charles Dickens, Dickens | |
Catalan | Charles Dickens, Dickens | |
Adjectives | Dickensian | of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions) |
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