dickens
pronunciation
How to pronounce dickens in British English:
UK [ˈdɪkɪnz]
How to pronounce dickens in American English:
US ['dɪkɪnz]
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- Noun:
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
Word Origin
- dickens
- exclamation, 1590s, apparently a substitute for devil; probably altered from Dickon, nickname for Richard and source of the surnames Dickens and Dickenson, but exact derivation and meaning are unknown.
Example
- 1. But what the dickens does that matter ?
- 2. But this is not how dickens wrote .
- 3. Even dickens didn 't understand his energy .
- 4. Dickens is a role model for me .
- 5. Depression affected great minds such as charles dickens john keats and tennessee williams .