Meaning of Tappertitian | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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 […]”

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