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Translation of dickens in Spanish:

1 informal, dated
where the dickens is it? — ¿dónde diantre / demontre(s) está? dated, informal
- what the dickens! — ¡qué diantre / demontre(s)!
- 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.
2US informal
(unruly child)
he's/she's the dickens — es el mismísimo demonio

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