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
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to be full of the mf dickens, to have the spirit of a raging Charles Dickens through your blood stream
i've been cooped up in this dark room all day i just need to get out and release some serious energy. i'm "full of the dickens!"
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