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Definition of Dickens
1. Noun. A word used in exclamations of confusion. "The dickens you say"
2. Noun. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870).
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer
Derivative terms: Dickensian
Definition of Dickens
1. n. or interj. The devil.
Definition of Dickens
1. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹
2. Proper noun. Charles Dickens, English novelist. ¹
3. Noun. (euphemistic) The devil. ¹
4. Noun. In the phrase ''the dickens'' ((non-gloss definition Used as an intensifier)). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dickens
1. devil [n -ES]
Literary usage of Dickens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"Of one incident of dickens' life readers will look for greater fullness and ...
Somehow dickens had, from beginning to end, very great affection for all the ..."
2. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low, Publishers' Circular, Sampson Low, Son and Marston (1900)
"99 dickens (C.)—Children's Stones re-told by his Granddaughter and others. ...
With a General Essay on the Works of Charles dickens by Andrew Lang. ..."
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