Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

played the dickens with

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables
played the dick-en-s with
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
3
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does played the dickens with mean?
simple past and past participle of play the dickens with

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