dickens
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dickens
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (colloquial) (old-fashioned) (general)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
A word or phrase that is seldom used in contemporary language and is recognized as being from another decade, (e.g., cat, groovy).
a. no direct translation
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word 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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