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Tupperian

Tupperian adjective: of or relating to the English poet and novelist Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889).

Adjective

Tupperian (comparative more Tupperian, superlative most Tupperian)

  1. Of or relating to the English poet and novelist Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889).
    • […]whether I cribbed them from Balzac,—whether I dipped them from the ocean of Tupperian wisdom,—or whether I have just found them in my head, […].1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter XI, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 317

Forms of Tupperian

comparativemore Tupperian
superlativemost Tupperian

Origin of Tupperian

From Tupper + -ian.

Questions about Tupperian

What does Tupperian mean?
Tupperian means of or relating to the English poet and novelist Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889).
What part of speech is Tupperian?
Tupperian is an adjective.

Words near Tupperian in the dictionary

  1. tuppenny-ha'penny
  2. Tupper
  3. Tupper Lake
  4. Tupper's self-referential formula
  5. Tupperesque
  6. Tupperian
  7. Tupperish
  8. Tupperism
  9. Tupperize
  10. Tupperized
  11. Tupperizes

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