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- noun Plural form of
Wellerism .
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Examples
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Wellerisms from “Pickwick” and “Master Humphrey's Clock.”
Life of Charles Dickens Marzials, Frank 1887
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Other formats include Wellerisms, from the Pickwick Papers character Sam Weller: "So I see," said the blind man as he picked up a hammer and saw; and Tom Swifties (from the series of Tom Swift books in the early 1900s): "Pass me the shellfish," Tom said crabbily.
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