English Explanatory Dictionary

Tappertitian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Similar to the character Simon Tappertit in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, especially being self-important, passionately conservative and anti-Catholic, and given to big ideas poorly expressed.

Word forms

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Etymology

From Simon Tappertit + -ian, from a character in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge.

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