Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tappertitian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tap-per-ti-tian
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

Example Sentences

"I have been proof against the garish splendors and alcoholic excitements of the ordinary stage combinations of Tappertitian romance with the police intelligence."
"This chapter is illiterate, unconsciously Tappertitian. The language is painfully funny."
"This astonishing pronunciamento upon the liberty, the art, the culture, and the common sense of England takes place with Tappertitian gravity […]"

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Simon Tappertit

Inflected Forms

more Tappertitian (comparative) most Tappertitian (superlative)

Questions

What does tappertitian mean?: 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.
Where does tappertitian come from?: From Simon Tappertit + -ian, from a character in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge.

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