Pickwickian adjective & noun. [pɪk'wɪkɪǝn] M19.
[from Pickwick (see below) + -IAN.]
A. adjective.
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling Mr Pickwick, a character in Dickens's Pickwick Papers (1837), and founder of the Pickwick Club described in the novel, esp. in being generous, jovial, and plump; (of a word or sense of a word) not literally meant, misused so as to avoid offence. M19.

2. Medicine. (Also pickwickian.) Having or designating a syndrome occurring in some obese people which is characterized by somnolence, respiratory abnormalities, and bulimia. M20.
b. noun.
1. A member of the Pickwick Club. M19.

2. Medicine. A person with the Pickwickian syndrome. M20.

■ Pickwickianly adverb L19.

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