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The Devil "Nothing to do with Charles Dickens. 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.'" Source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/233450.html Further information: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dickens http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/what_the_dickens
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