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(See Boz.)
Dickens is a perverted oath corrupted from “Nick.” Mrs. Page says—
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 2.
⁂ The three poets who express a conflagration are “Dickens! How-itt, Burns!”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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