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Wilde vs Dickens - What's the difference?

wilde | dickens |

As proper nouns the difference between wilde and dickens

is that wilde is {{surname|from=Middle English}} A variant of Wild while Dickens is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.

As a noun dickens is

the devil.

wilde

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A variant of Wild.

    • Anagrams

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    dickens

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (euphemistic) The devil.
    • She can go to the dickens for what she said.
    You scared the dickens out of me.
  • In the phrase the dickens ((Used as an intensifier)).
    • Why the dickens did he do that?
    We had the dickens of a row.

    References

    * Random House Dictionary

    Anagrams

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    Synonyms

    * (intensifier) on earth, the hell, the devil, the heck, the fuck

    See also

    * Dickensian English intensifiers