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Show Meaning ot "Dickens" "Dickens" Is an Interjectlonal expression ex-pression signifying astonishment, Impatience Im-patience and Irritation. It is usually used with words of Interrogation such aa what, where, how and why. The name has nothing to do with Charles Dickens. It was used by Shakespeare over two centuries before Dickens was born. In "Merry Wives of Windsor" Mrs. Page says: "I cannot tell what the dickens his name Is my husband had hlra of." "Dickens" Is believed to be a euphemism for deuce or devil, which have the same Initial letter. Pathfinder Magazine. |