Dickensとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɪkɪnz/, /ˈdɪkənz/
• 韻: -ɪkənz

名詞

dickens

1. (euphemistic) The devil.

   She can go to the dickens for what she said.

   You scared the dickens out of me.

   • 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (8:49 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):

     “Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”

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

   Why the dickens did he do that?

   We had the dickens of a row.

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123:

     "What the dickens does it all mean? The Martians can't get out of their pit, can they?"

3. A disturbance or row.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     Hugh considered saying, Then I guess I'll just have to kick you a few times instead, you frog son of a bitch. Then he thought of that fat bastard Keeton, handing him a pink slip for kicking up dickens in the local tavern.

   • 2013, Robert C. Sickels, “Acknowledgments”, in 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, LLC, →ISBN:

     And lastly, thanks to my children, Dutch and Tallulah, for allowing me to see the magic of everything I love about popular culture anew through their eyes. This one is for you two dickens!

同意語

• (intensifier): on earth, the hell, the devil, the heck, the fuck

派生語

参考

• Dickensian

参照

• Random House Dictionary

アナグラム

• snicked