noun

• Used for emphasis, or to express annoyance or surprise when asking questions.

  More example sentences

  • ‘ what the dickens is going on?’
  • ‘they work like the dickens’
  • ‘On a bad day, the knees and hips that haven't already been replaced hurt like the dickens.’
  • ‘‘It hurt like the dickens,’ the first-term congressman said.’
  • ‘He is in a dickens of a bind, it seems to me, morally, ethically, and legally.’
  • ‘This is going to hurt like the dickens, but you'll have to bear with it.’
  • ‘And daylilies bloom like the dickens in coastal Southern California, even outflowering roses.’