Pickwickianadj.n.

Brit.

/pɪkˈwɪkɪən/, U.S.

/pɪkˈwɪkiən/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Pickwick , -ian suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Mr. Pickwick, the eponymous character in Dickens's novel Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) + -ian suffix.In sense A. 2 in allusion to the character of Joe in Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (see quot. 1956 at sense A. 2).

A. adj.

a. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling Mr. Pickwick, or the Pickwick Club.When applied to a person, usually used to suggest plumpness, joviality, benevolence, or innocence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [adjective] > deliberately misunderstood or misused

Pickwickian1836

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer > of specific character or work

Pantagruelian1694

Shandean1762

Shandaic1766

Pickwickian1836

Pantagruelistical1838

Wellerian1838

Pantagruelistic1845

Pantagruelic1850

Welleresque1868

Pantagrueline1882

1836 C. Dickens Let. 18 Feb. (1965) I. 132 Believe me (in Pickwickian haste) Faithfully Yours Charles Dickens.

1849 Times 18 Sept. 6/2 The style of the Eatanswill Gazette and the Independent, of Pickwickian celebrity.

1869 Overland Monthly July 87/2 Alas! that..the Pickwickian trustfulness of our party should be rewarded by a small army of brutes.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/2 A public-house sign common enough in the Pickwickian age, and often pictorially presented, namely, the portrait of the ‘King of Prussia’ in a blue uniform.

1953 ‘N. Blake’ Dreadful Hollow 147 Blount, whose Pickwickian exterior camouflaged a mind as ruthlessly purposeful as a guided missile.

1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xvii. 173 Johnson's Pickwickian features were unusually solemn.

1992 A. Myers Murder makes Entrée (BNC) A large white cravat and black jacket unfortunately accentuated his Pickwickian paunch.

b. Frequently humorous. Of a word, expression, etc.: not literally meant; (sometimes) interpreted in such a way as to avoid unpleasantness, difficulty, etc. Esp. in in a Pickwickian sense.

ΚΠ

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 4 The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand..whether he had used the expression..in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying, that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.

1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 309/2 The work is called..‘A year in Spain’... In Mr. Slidell's case.., years are only to be considered in a Pickwickian sense.

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 100 Out it comes..with no mincing of phrase, and no Pickwickian or Congressional explanations afterwards.

1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers 163 He forswore sack and poetry; but presently he was with the Muse again, and his farewell to sack was in a strictly Pickwickian sense.

1952 C. Hartshorne in C. W. Kegley & R. W. Bretall Theol. Paul Tillich ii. vii. 183 The completeness and universality are, of course, Pickwickian, hedged about with radical but indeterminate qualifications.

1998 Times 25 June 24/4 Mr Blair will no longer be able to claim that his comments on monetary union..were made purely in his capacity as chairman of a private club and should therefore be seen as humbug ‘only in the Pickwickian sense’.

2. Medicine. Designating or suffering from a syndrome characterized by excessive daytime somnolence in a morbidly obese person, often with metabolic abnormalities and polycythaemia, attributed to abnormal breathing (alveolar hypoventilation and obstructive sleep apnoea).A more recent name for this syndrome is obesity-hypoventilation syndrome.

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1956 C. S. Burwell et al. in Amer. Jrnl. Med. 21 812/1 Figure 1 represents Thomas Nast's drawing of Mr. Wardle's boy, Joe. This masterful description by Charles Dickens of a patient with marked obesity and somnolence is the first complete description of this syndrome that we have been able to find in the literature. For this reason we have called it the Pickwickian syndrome.

1965 Progress Brain Res. 18 157 The short diurnal periods of light sleep (10–12 sec duration) in Pickwickian patients are characterized by apnea, increased cyanosis and muscular relaxation.

1977 Lancet 7 May 993/1 There are many other conditions, usually clinically obvious such as the pickwickian syndrome, in which there is both a respiratory and sleep abnormality.

1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 9 Jan. c7/1 It even appears in literature—called the ‘Pickwickian syndrome,’ named for a young character in Dickens' Pickwick Papers who kept falling asleep in the middle of conversations.

B. n.

1. A member of the Pickwick Club. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer > of specific work or character

Pantagruelist1611

Pickwickian1836

Shandean1866

Pantagruelian1899

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 1 A proposal, emanating from the aforesaid Samuel Pickwick..and three other Pickwickians..for forming a new branch of United Pickwickians.

1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 491/2 We waited upon the dean, who, being himself a Pickwickian, gave us absolution in the most kindly way.

1909 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 230 About the fact—of the bathlessness of the Pickwickians—we may infer that there is no doubt whatever.

1956 Lima (Ohio) News 5 June 20/7 Fellow Pickwickians, I move you that we continue to hand it [sc. the award] to brother Egbert until we make him show up!

2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Dec. 9 The Pickwickians treat their womenfolk with old-world gallantry.

2. Medicine. A person with the Pickwickian syndrome.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger > person

Pickwickian1965

1965 Progress Brain Res. 18 156 Most obese people..present no diurnal sleeping syndrome, and so far as is known no nocturnal apnea, so that the Pickwickian should have some central disturbance of respiration and arousal.

1975 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 39 579/2 The data obtained were compared with those observed in a group of 59 hypersomnolent patients aged between 19 and 83.., 18 of whom were Pickwickians.

Derivatives

Pickˈwickianism n. Pickwickian use of language; an instance of this; a remark made in a Pickwickian sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun] > instance of

subtletya1387

obscurity1495

difficulty?1504

ambage1520

profundities1582

abstrusity1632

concavity1650

mysterious1836

oracularity1840

Pickwickianism1860

in-reference1967

1860 Leeds Mercury 7 July 4/4 How are the practical results of this Pickwickianism to be got over?

1894 Chicago Advance 28 June This author does not mean his assertions to be taken as facts, but only as bits of critical pickwickianisms.

1992 Times (Nexis) 5 Nov. Sampson..obliges with an ingenious Pickwickianism: ‘This will be an invaluable book for Scots-minded readers wherever they may be.’

Pickˈwickianly adv. now rare in a Pickwickian sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adverb]

deeplyc888

highOE

darkOE

dimly?c1225

darklyc1350

mistilya1382

murklya1400

subtlya1500

obscurelya1527

confuselya1530

diffuselyc1530

confusedly?1531

diffusedly1567

difficultly1568

indistinctly1580

enigmatically1590

perplexedly1603

subtilely1605

abstrusely1611

cloudily1651

oracularly1654

perplexly1670

reclusely1673

irrecognizably1841

Pickwickianly1866

delphically1927

1866 Daily News 20 Jan. 5/4 It is very possible that diplomatic skill may find words which, used in a Pickwickianly diplomatic sense, may be equal to this feat.

1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer iii. i. 290 ‘And how do you believe it?’ Jeremy asked. ‘Pickwickianly or unPickwickianly?’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pickwickian
释义	Pickwickianadj.n. Brit. /pɪkˈwɪkɪən/, U.S. /pɪkˈwɪkiən/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Pickwick , -ian suffix. Etymology: < the name of Mr. Pickwick, the eponymous character in Dickens's novel Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) + -ian suffix.In sense A. 2 in allusion to the character of Joe in Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (see quot. 1956 at sense A. 2). A. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling Mr. Pickwick, or the Pickwick Club.When applied to a person, usually used to suggest plumpness, joviality, benevolence, or innocence. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [adjective] > deliberately misunderstood or misused Pickwickian1836 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer > of specific character or work Pantagruelian1694 Shandean1762 Shandaic1766 Pickwickian1836 Pantagruelistical1838 Wellerian1838 Pantagruelistic1845 Pantagruelic1850 Welleresque1868 Pantagrueline1882 1836 C. Dickens Let. 18 Feb. (1965) I. 132 Believe me (in Pickwickian haste) Faithfully Yours Charles Dickens. 1849 Times 18 Sept. 6/2 The style of the Eatanswill Gazette and the Independent, of Pickwickian celebrity. 1869 Overland Monthly July 87/2 Alas! that..the Pickwickian trustfulness of our party should be rewarded by a small army of brutes. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/2 A public-house sign common enough in the Pickwickian age, and often pictorially presented, namely, the portrait of the ‘King of Prussia’ in a blue uniform. 1953 ‘N. Blake’ Dreadful Hollow 147 Blount, whose Pickwickian exterior camouflaged a mind as ruthlessly purposeful as a guided missile. 1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xvii. 173 Johnson's Pickwickian features were unusually solemn. 1992 A. Myers Murder makes Entrée (BNC) A large white cravat and black jacket unfortunately accentuated his Pickwickian paunch. b. Frequently humorous. Of a word, expression, etc.: not literally meant; (sometimes) interpreted in such a way as to avoid unpleasantness, difficulty, etc. Esp. in in a Pickwickian sense. ΚΠ 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 4 The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand..whether he had used the expression..in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying, that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. 1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 309/2 The work is called..‘A year in Spain’... In Mr. Slidell's case.., years are only to be considered in a Pickwickian sense. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 100 Out it comes..with no mincing of phrase, and no Pickwickian or Congressional explanations afterwards. 1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers 163 He forswore sack and poetry; but presently he was with the Muse again, and his farewell to sack was in a strictly Pickwickian sense. 1952 C. Hartshorne in C. W. Kegley & R. W. Bretall Theol. Paul Tillich ii. vii. 183 The completeness and universality are, of course, Pickwickian, hedged about with radical but indeterminate qualifications. 1998 Times 25 June 24/4 Mr Blair will no longer be able to claim that his comments on monetary union..were made purely in his capacity as chairman of a private club and should therefore be seen as humbug ‘only in the Pickwickian sense’. 2. Medicine. Designating or suffering from a syndrome characterized by excessive daytime somnolence in a morbidly obese person, often with metabolic abnormalities and polycythaemia, attributed to abnormal breathing (alveolar hypoventilation and obstructive sleep apnoea).A more recent name for this syndrome is obesity-hypoventilation syndrome. ΚΠ 1956 C. S. Burwell et al. in Amer. Jrnl. Med. 21 812/1 Figure 1 represents Thomas Nast's drawing of Mr. Wardle's boy, Joe. This masterful description by Charles Dickens of a patient with marked obesity and somnolence is the first complete description of this syndrome that we have been able to find in the literature. For this reason we have called it the Pickwickian syndrome. 1965 Progress Brain Res. 18 157 The short diurnal periods of light sleep (10–12 sec duration) in Pickwickian patients are characterized by apnea, increased cyanosis and muscular relaxation. 1977 Lancet 7 May 993/1 There are many other conditions, usually clinically obvious such as the pickwickian syndrome, in which there is both a respiratory and sleep abnormality. 1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 9 Jan. c7/1 It even appears in literature—called the ‘Pickwickian syndrome,’ named for a young character in Dickens' Pickwick Papers who kept falling asleep in the middle of conversations. B. n. 1. A member of the Pickwick Club. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer > of specific work or character Pantagruelist1611 Pickwickian1836 Shandean1866 Pantagruelian1899 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 1 A proposal, emanating from the aforesaid Samuel Pickwick..and three other Pickwickians..for forming a new branch of United Pickwickians. 1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 491/2 We waited upon the dean, who, being himself a Pickwickian, gave us absolution in the most kindly way. 1909 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 230 About the fact—of the bathlessness of the Pickwickians—we may infer that there is no doubt whatever. 1956 Lima (Ohio) News 5 June 20/7 Fellow Pickwickians, I move you that we continue to hand it [sc. the award] to brother Egbert until we make him show up! 2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Dec. 9 The Pickwickians treat their womenfolk with old-world gallantry. 2. Medicine. A person with the Pickwickian syndrome. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger > person Pickwickian1965 1965 Progress Brain Res. 18 156 Most obese people..present no diurnal sleeping syndrome, and so far as is known no nocturnal apnea, so that the Pickwickian should have some central disturbance of respiration and arousal. 1975 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 39 579/2 The data obtained were compared with those observed in a group of 59 hypersomnolent patients aged between 19 and 83.., 18 of whom were Pickwickians. Derivatives Pickˈwickianism n. Pickwickian use of language; an instance of this; a remark made in a Pickwickian sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun] > instance of subtletya1387 obscurity1495 difficulty?1504 ambage1520 profundities1582 abstrusity1632 concavity1650 mysterious1836 oracularity1840 Pickwickianism1860 in-reference1967 1860 Leeds Mercury 7 July 4/4 How are the practical results of this Pickwickianism to be got over? 1894 Chicago Advance 28 June This author does not mean his assertions to be taken as facts, but only as bits of critical pickwickianisms. 1992 Times (Nexis) 5 Nov. Sampson..obliges with an ingenious Pickwickianism: ‘This will be an invaluable book for Scots-minded readers wherever they may be.’ Pickˈwickianly adv. now rare in a Pickwickian sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adverb] deeplyc888 highOE darkOE dimly?c1225 darklyc1350 mistilya1382 murklya1400 subtlya1500 obscurelya1527 confuselya1530 diffuselyc1530 confusedly?1531 diffusedly1567 difficultly1568 indistinctly1580 enigmatically1590 perplexedly1603 subtilely1605 abstrusely1611 cloudily1651 oracularly1654 perplexly1670 reclusely1673 irrecognizably1841 Pickwickianly1866 delphically1927 1866 Daily News 20 Jan. 5/4 It is very possible that diplomatic skill may find words which, used in a Pickwickianly diplomatic sense, may be equal to this feat. 1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer iii. i. 290 ‘And how do you believe it?’ Jeremy asked. ‘Pickwickianly or unPickwickianly?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1836
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