Tupperian
English
Etymology
Adjective
Tupperian (comparative more Tupperian, superlative most Tupperian)
- Of or relating to the English poet and novelist Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889).
- 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:
- […] 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, […] .