wellerism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Wellerism.
Example Sentences
- "Examples of Romance Wellerisms are rather infrequent in literature and must be gathered from oral tradition."
- "An examination of recent literature for Wellerisms might prove productive."
- "The Wellerism, which has its name from Sam Weller's use of many of them in Pickwick Papers, is much older than Dickens."
- "[…]without adding the names of those who were widely known to be responsible for the coinage of such wellerisms."
- "Dickens used wellerisms already in his letters prior to writing Pickwick Papers."
- "2002, Fionnuala Carson Williams, Wellerisms in Ireland, University of Vermont, page 38, In many cases where a wellerism and a folktale are connected the quote in the wellerism is a set sentence like 'Up and at it!' which is well-known apart from the wellerism."