noun
- A word used in exclamations of confusion.
- usage: "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say"
- English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870. ).
- synonyms: Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens
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