Examples of Romance Wellerisms are rather infrequent in literature and must be gathered from oral tradition.
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Wellerism
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1 entries- wellerismi noun (proverb)
German
2 entries- Sagwort noun (proverb)
- Wellerismus noun (proverb)
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An examination of recent literature for Wellerisms might prove productive.
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The Wellerism, which has its name from Sam Weller's use of many of them in Pickwick Papers, is much older than Dickens.
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[…]without adding the names of those who were widely known to be responsible for the coinage of such wellerisms.
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