dickens : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dickens	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for dickens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dickens n a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" Synonym(s): devil, deuce, dickens English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) Synonym(s): Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dickens \Dick"ens\, n. [or] interj. [Perh. a contr. of the dim. devilkins.] The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.] I can not tell what the dickens his name is. --Shak.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dickens, IA (city, FIPS 21360) Location: 43.13337 N, 95.02207 W Population (1990): 214 (84 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51333 Dickens, NE (village, FIPS 13050) Location: 40.82583 N, 100.99345 W Population (1990): 16 (7 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69132 Dickens, TX (city, FIPS 20332) Location: 33.62126 N, 100.83583 W Population (1990): 322 (182 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79229