See Also: foulard(dictionary)

Wellerism (iou) and foulard (iou)


Wellerism (iou)



Wellerism noun. Also wellerism. M19.
[from Samuel Weller or his father, two characters in Dickens's Pickwick Papers + -ISM.]
A form of humorous comparison in which a familiar saying or proverb is identified with something said by a person in a specified but inapposite situation.
New Society The Wellerism: 'Meet you at the corner as one wall said to another.'

foulard (iou)



foulard noun. ['fu:l¨»:, -¨»:d] M19.
[French, of unkn. origin.]
A thin printed or checked material of silk or of silk and cotton. M19.
A handkerchief of this material. L19.