Meaning of Wellerism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A proverb, often a fatuous one, attributed to speaker in a situation.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Wellerism.
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Examples

“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.”

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