English Explanatory Dictionary

Pickwickian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Arbitrary or meaningless (of the usage of a word or phrase).
  2. Having, or relating to, Pickwickian syndrome.
  3. Of or relating to The Pickwick Papers, its storyline, or its characters (chiefly Samuel Pickwick himself).
noun
  1. A person who has Pickwickian syndrome.
adj
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pickwickian.

Word forms

Pickwickian more Pickwickian most Pickwickian Pickwickians

Etymology

From Pickwick + -ian, from The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens, in which members of the Pickwick Club explain away unparliamentary language as having been uttered "in the Pickwickian sense".

Related words

Humpty Dumptyism

Derived words

Pickwickianism Pickwickianly Pickwickian syndrome
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