Ponderment of the day
First off, is that a word????
Just what are the dickens, and exactly how cute are they anyway?
Just what are the dickens, and exactly how cute are they anyway?
posted by Bud @ 6:27 PM
posted by Bud @ 6:27 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:32 AM,
Greg said…
Orphans in a London poorhouse?
At 6:22 AM,
TeacherRefPoet said…
Found this, Bud:
"'Dickens' is a euphemism for 'devil' as in "'what the dickens,' an expression common centuries before Charles Dickens was born, having been used by Shakespeare in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'."
"Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).
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