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• why the dickens — what/why/how/etc the dickens informal old fashioned phrase used for emphasizing a question when you are surprised or angry Thesaurus: ways of adding emphasis to questionssynonym Main entry: dickens …   Useful english dictionary

• what the dickens — what/why/how/etc the dickens informal old fashioned phrase used for emphasizing a question when you are surprised or angry Thesaurus: ways of adding emphasis to questionssynonym Main entry: dickens …   Useful english dictionary

• how the dickens — what/why/how/etc the dickens informal old fashioned phrase used for emphasizing a question when you are surprised or angry Thesaurus: ways of adding emphasis to questionssynonym Main entry: dickens …   Useful english dictionary

• why on Earth — interjection used to add emphasis to why when beginning a question. Why on Earth are you trying to accomplish anything here? Syn: why the dickens, why in Gods name, why the Devil …   Wiktionary

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• Dickens, Charles — ▪ British novelist Introduction in full  Charles John Huffam Dickens   born Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng. died June 9, 1870, Gad s Hill, near Chatham, Kent  English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His …   Universalium