Wellerism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A proverb, often a fatuous one, attributed to speaker in a situation.
    — Examples of Romance Wellerisms are rather infrequent in literature and must be gathered from oral tradition.

词形变化

Wellerisms plural wellerism alternative

词源

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