weller

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proper noun

A surname.

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

weller1

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of well: more well

    Now we come home he is already weller.

    1922, Samuel Hopkins Adams, From a Bench in Our Square
    3 more examples

    Emma is looking weller and handsomer (as you say) than ever.

    1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6)

    He forgot the Huns; forgot John the Baptist; forgot even his sick, till one of the weller of them (as we may assume) knocked memorially upon his door....

    1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes

    “I’m not ill. I’m weller than you,” said Michael rudely.

    1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Bad Tuesday”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 85

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