# Pickwickian

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Arbitrary or meaningless (of the usage of a word or phrase).
2. Having, or relating to, Pickwickian syndrome.
3. Of or relating to The Pickwick Papers, its storyline, or its characters (chiefly Samuel Pickwick himself).

## Etymology
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".

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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