dickens English

Meaning dickens meaning

What does dickens mean?

dickens

— noun (= devil, deuce) 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)

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Charles John Huffam Dickens

Charles Dickens

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Simple sentences

Today we'll study Charles Dickens.

Dickens was a very prolific writer.

Movie subtitles

Oh, what the dickens.

What the dickens is that to you?

How the dickens do you think they got here?

I can spell like the dickens.

Dickens, Zola, Michelet.

That nasty Colonel Hoffman giving him the dickens in his room or his prince of a beautiful father taking him to the ball?

COLLECTED WORKS OF DICKENS!

No, sirree. she won't give up her freedom. She's too full of the dickens.

Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry. - Oh, come on, Cathy.

We could have transferred George Dickens if he hadn't got himself eaten that way.

You sentimental little dickens.

Well, I pretty near scared the dickens out of you.

Well, gives me a chance to catch up on my Dickens.

Oh, Charles Dickens.

How the dickens do i know?

They're a dickens of a problem, aren't they, sir?

I shy to the thought of disemboweling a complete set of Charles Dickens.

Say, how about opening a bottle of ginger ale and let's raise some dickens.

I can spell like the dickens. Constantinople?

How the dickens should I know?

But they got the dickens of a big bonfire over in Cheyne Yard.

To the dickens with the dead.

Young. How much do you suppose the little dickens.

Ma'am? Heavens, Eddie, you make me sound so ancient, like something out of Charles Dickens.

It's like something out of Dickens.

What the dickens?

I'll bet he's a little dickens.

Grandfather and I are reading dickens.

Well, Sally, how the dickens did you ever get it?

What the dickens are the children.

Sorry, but they worry the dickens out of me.

How the dickens can I tell where to start, eh?

Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry.

Dickens, Melville, and Hammett are better than all these new audiovisual truth-detecting methods.

Pash, we should register for some of Dickens' books.

As Charles Dickens would say, I'm twenty-five.

Oh, chickens dickens!

That Christmas in London. would be like something out of Dickens.

News and current affairs

In Dickens' England, the judiciary was not independent, and newspapers were subject to state censorship.

In the 1830's, as Douglas-Fairhust movingly demonstrates, boys and girls who came from economically vulnerable families could find themselves unschooled and working 18 hours a day in blacking factories, like the 12-year-old Dickens.

People who did not pay their creditors were sent - with their families - to debtors' prisons, as John Dickens, Charles' father, was for owing 40 pounds.