Pick·wick·i·an (p k-wk  - n)adj. 1. Simple and kind: a Pickwickian uncle. 2. Meant or understood in an idiosyncratic or unusual way: a word used in a Pickwickian manner. [After Mr. Pickwick, central character in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens.] |
Pickwickian [pɪkˈwɪkɪən]
adj
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of, relating to, or resembling Mr Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers, a novel by English novelist Charles Dickens (1812-70), esp in being naive or benevolent
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (of the use or meaning of a word, etc.) odd or unusual
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