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Wellerian

Wellerian adjective: of or relating to the character Sam Weller in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836), an astute cockney given to uttering fatuous proverbs (Wellerisms).

Adjective

Wellerian (comparative more Wellerian, superlative most Wellerian)

  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).

Forms of Wellerian

comparativemore Wellerian
superlativemost Wellerian

Origin of Wellerian

From Weller + -ian.

Questions about Wellerian

What does Wellerian mean?
Wellerian means of or relating to the character Sam Weller in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836), an astute cockney given to uttering fatuous proverbs (Wellerisms).
What part of speech is Wellerian?
Wellerian is an adjective.

Words near Wellerian in the dictionary

  1. welled up
  2. Wellens' sign
  3. Wellens' syndrome
  4. Wellentheorie
  5. weller
  6. Wellerian
  7. wellerism
  8. wellerisms
  9. Welles
  10. Wellesbourne
  11. Wellesbourne and Walton

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