English Explanatory Dictionary

Wellerian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the character Sam Weller in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836), an astute cockney given to uttering fatuous proverbs (Wellerisms).

Word forms

Wellerian more Wellerian most Wellerian

Etymology

From Weller + -ian.

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