tippertant
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prettygoodwordForgotten English Friday yay!
tippertant - "A young upstart." —Edward Slow's Glossary of Wiltshire Words, Used by the Peasantry in the Neighborhood of Salisbury, c. 1900
The only use of the word I can find on the 'net aside from Slow's works is a 1905 newspaper from Pensacola, which means it escaped Wiltshire at least once. The word is occasioned by the death of Robert Greene in 1592, a playwright and author now best remembered for his snarking at William Shakespeare, then a hot new thing, as an "upstart crow" who "supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you."
Older generations are cute when their feathers are ruffled by being supplanted.
---L.
tippertant - "A young upstart." —Edward Slow's Glossary of Wiltshire Words, Used by the Peasantry in the Neighborhood of Salisbury, c. 1900
The only use of the word I can find on the 'net aside from Slow's works is a 1905 newspaper from Pensacola, which means it escaped Wiltshire at least once. The word is occasioned by the death of Robert Greene in 1592, a playwright and author now best remembered for his snarking at William Shakespeare, then a hot new thing, as an "upstart crow" who "supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you."
Older generations are cute when their feathers are ruffled by being supplanted.
---L.
