Wellerian

English

Etymology

From Weller +‎ -ian.

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).
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