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wellerian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
welle-ri-an
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Etymology

From Weller + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Wellerian (comparative) most Wellerian (superlative)

Questions

What does wellerian mean?
Of or relating to the character Sam Weller in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836), an astute cockney given to uttering fatuous proverbs (Wellerisms).
Where does wellerian come from?
From Weller + -ian.

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