Pickwickian

a. 匹克威克(狄更斯所著小说中的Pickwick)的

词形变化

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别名

pickwickian

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who has Pickwickian syndrome.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Arbitrary or meaningless (of the usage of a word or phrase).

  2. 2.

    Having, or relating to, Pickwickian syndrome.

    医学
  3. 3.

    Of or relating to The Pickwick Papers, its storyline, or its characters (chiefly Samuel Pickwick himself).

相关短语

Pickwickian syndrome

词源

From Pickwick + -ian, from The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens, in which members of the Pickwick Club explain away unparliamentary language as having been uttered "in the Pickwickian sense".

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