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).

Wellerian

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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.

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