the dickens

Term used to accentuate, and emphasize the situation at hand.

1. Man, that food was good, like the dickens.

2. That girl is hot, like the dickens.

3. Oh boy, that stings like the dickens.

by Patrick Harris May 14, 2005

The dickens

Expression, similar to an adverb, that can be placed alongside any verb to emphasize the specific event or action. The most common use for "the dickens" is when it is used with the verb "to run". "The dickens" is also interchangeable with "hell".

When that hobo came after me, I ran like the dickens.

by Shirine December 28, 2005

The dickens, you say!?!

This is an expression typically used in place of "you're kidding me", "you're joshing me". However, I do not know the origin of the expression. I think it may have something to do with Charles Dickens

LARRY: Charleston is 100 years older than Savannah!

TIM: The dickens, you say!?!

by indieurban September 7, 2017

Bit the dickens

Bit the ,,hell'' out of someone.

I used to bit the dickens out of my brothers when we where kids,when I became angry at him.

by Toa Pohatu February 3, 2017

full of the dickens

Referring to a young man so filled with energy It eventually leads to bursting beyond what “the finest people “ consider appropriate behavior and just short of what most people would consider “naughty “ or bad.

Slightly unbridled youthful spirit of adventure.
Common: He’s a little dickens.

That child is full of the dickens.

We thoght we had the child secure with gates in and out of his playroom but the little dickens found a way out.

The little dickens is always getting into something.

by "HAIR" memories September 23, 2020

What the Dickens?

Dickens is a euphemism for "devil". From Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor",(Act III, Scene II).
"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is".

(NOT from Charles Dickens.)

What the Dickens?

What the Dickens were you thinking?

by Alanxxxxxxx April 14, 2006

What the Dickens?

Similar in meaning to what the heck, what the hell, etc. Is most commonly used in a a state of puzzlement and awe.

What the Dickens? I could have sworn that the rickshaw was on fire when I left the the East Indian Trading Company!

by North Bend November 15, 2007