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English
Etymology
From Simon Tappertit + -ian, from a character in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge.
Adjective
Tappertitian (comparative more Tappertitian, superlative most Tappertitian)
- 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.
1903, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface”, in Man and Superman:I have been proof against the garish splendors and alcoholic excitements of the ordinary stage combinations of Tappertitian romance with the police intelligence.
1912, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 66:This chapter is illiterate, unconsciously Tappertitian. The language is painfully funny.
1967, Ford Madox Ford, The English Review, volume 6, page 703:This astonishing pronunciamento upon the liberty, the art, the culture, and the common sense of England takes place with Tappertitian gravity […]