Etymology

Wellerian

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Today it 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). Full definition →

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The story

From Weller + -ian, after the character Sam Weller.

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