Definition of "dickens" in Englisch

noun

1. (euphemistic) The devil.

   • She can go to the dickens for what she said.
   • You scared the dickens out of me.

2. In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).

   • Why the dickens did he do that?
   • We had the dickens of a row.
   • For quotations using this term, see the dickens.

3. A disturbance or row.