Child
Dickens
Dickens noun - A word used in exclamations of confusion.
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A gender-reversed version of this occurs in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, in which David's first wife is childlike and asks him to think of her as his "child-wife."
Source: Parenting the Husband - In Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay refused to reveal even at his trial for treason that he is searching for the child of a family his father wronged.
Source: Big Secret -
An old Saturday Night Live sketch has Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child "cut the dickens out of [her] thumb," and subsequently bleed all over the set while trying to continue as though nothing had happened.
Source: Bloody Hilarious
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