Whats a dickens? Not the author.. Like your cuter than a dickens? What is that??

Answer 1

Dickens is a euphemism for the word devil, possibly via devilkins. Shakespeare used it in 'the Merry Wives of Windsor: 'I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of.'

Answer 2

[Q] From Jan Walsh: “Do you know where the phrase hurts like the dickens comes from?”
[A] Let’s focus in on dickens as the important word here, since there are lots of different expressions with it in, such as what the dickens, where the dickens, the dickens you are!, and the dickens you say!
It goes back a lot further than Charles Dickens, though it does seem to have been borrowed from the English surname, most likely sometime in the sixteenth century or before. (The surname itself probably derives from Dickin or Dickon, familiar diminutive forms of Dick.) It was—and still is, though people hardly know it any more—a euphemism for the Devil. It’s very much in the same style as deuce, as in old oaths like what the deuce! which contains another name for the Devil.
The first person known to use it was that great recorder of Elizabethan expressions, William Shakespeare, in The Merry Wives of Windsor: “FORD: Where had you this pretty weathercock? MRS PAGE: I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of”. That pun relied on the audience knowing that Dickens was a personal name and that what the dickens was a mild oath which called on the Devil.

Answer 3

The expression, 'the dickens' is an old-fashioned, informal, vulgarly euphemistic one.

It is used in the sense :DEVIL':

Eg. What the dickens (the hell) he means by it? / Where the dickens he has gone?

ORIGIN: Not known. May be from the name RICHARD

It is also used fo mean 'ATTRACTIVE'
Eg. She is as cute as the dickenz.

To denote Male Sexual organ: (fat & long)

The dude has a dickenz ( Fat & Long Penis)

This is how the expression is commonly used.

SOME OTHERS SUGGESTED ARE TOO FAR-FETCHED

Answer 4

We say it here in Georgia. It is usually addressed to young children. Kinda refers to just being a cute little kid. m

Answer 5

Somebody once asked me what i thought about Dickins. I said "I don't know, I've never been to one!"

Answer 6

6 entries found for dickens.
Main Entry: child
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: youngster
Synonyms: adolescent, ankle biter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens*, grommet, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie*, lamb*, little angel*, little darling*, little doll*, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, punk, rug rat, shaver, small fry*, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teenager, teenybopper*, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin*, whippersnapper*, young, youth
Antonyms: adult, grown-up
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.2.1)
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* = informal or slang

Main Entry: devil
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demon
Synonyms: Beelzebub, Evil One, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Satan, adversary, archfiend, beast, brute, common enemy, dastard, diablo, dybbuk, enfant terrible*, fiend, hellion, imp, knave, monster, ogre, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, sin, the Dickens, villain
Antonyms: God
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.2.1)
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* = informal or slang

Main Entry: mischievous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: devilish
Synonyms: arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dickens*, evil, exasperating, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, ill-behaved, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, misbehaving, naughty, nocuous, paw, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, rascally, risky, roguish, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vexing, vicious, wayward, wicked
Antonyms: good, well-behaved
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.2.1)
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* = informal or slang

Main Entry: naughty
Part of Speech: adjective 1
Definition: misbehaved
Synonyms: annoying, bad, badly behaved*, bum, contrary, disobedient, disorderly, evil, exasperating, fiendish, fractious, froward, headstrong, holy terror, impish, indecorous, insubordinate, intractable, little dickens, mischievous, obstreperous, perverse, playful, rascally, raunchy, recalcitrant, refractory, roguish, rough, rowdy, sinful, teasing, tough, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wanton, wayward, wicked, willful, worthless, wrong, yucky
Antonyms: behaved, good, well-behaved
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.2.1)
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* = informal or slang

Main Entry: raise Cain
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause trouble
Synonyms: raise a rumpus, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the dickens
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.2.1)
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Main Entry: urchin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: brat
Synonyms: brat*, cub, dickens*, gamin, guttersnipe, holy terror, imp, juvenile delinquent, monkey, mudlark, punk*, pup*, ragamuffin, snot nose, snot-nose kid, waif, whippersnapper, youngster
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.2.1)
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* = informal or slang