Tappertitian
English edit
Etymology edit
Simon Tappertit + -ian, from a character in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge.
Adjective edit
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 […]