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Wellerism

Wellerism

English

Noun

Wellerism ‎(plural Wellerisms)

  1. A proverb, often a fatuous one, attributed to speaker in a situation.

Synonyms

  • apologetic proverb

Translations

Etymology

Weller +‎ -ism, after the character Sam Weller in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836).

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