dickens

dickens
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
noun
1.
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
A word or phrase that is seldom used in contemporary language and is recognized as being from another decade, (e.g., cat, groovy).
(old-fashioned)
(general)
a.
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.
no direct translation
Chesterfield's party really was a dickens of an occasion, don't you think, Sarah?La fiesta de Chesterfield fue lo mejor ¿no te parece, Sarah?
Who the dickens do you think you are, ask me a question like that?¿Quién diablos crees que eres, haciéndome semejante pregunta?
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