英语词汇“pickwickian”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pickwickian
释义	pick·wick·i·an \(ˈ)pik\|wikēən\ adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Samuel Pickwick, benevolent and simple-minded character in the novel Pickwick Papers (1836-37) by Charles Dickens died 1870 English novelist + English -an 1. : marked by simplicity and generosity of character or by an appearance and manner suggesting these qualities < struck one as an almost Pickwickian old gentleman — Louis Auchincloss > < welcomed by a Pickwickian headmaster, a jolly, rotund man — Norris Houghton > 2. [so called from the peculiar sense given to common words by Mr. Blotton and Mr. Pickwick, characters in the novel Pickwick Papers] : intended or taken in a sense other than the obvious or literal one : specially or whimsically limited or distorted in intended meaning < injustice … is merely a Pickwickian expression for what human beings do not like — Nation > < evidently England is starving to death, if at all, only in a strictly Pickwickian sense — Economist >
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