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wite (iou) and Tupperian (iou)


wite (iou)



wite verb trans. obsolete exc. Scot. & north. Also wyte.
[Old English witan, corresp. to Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon witan, Old High German wian, Old Norse vita, Gothic -weitan (fraweitan avenge), rel. to WITE noun2 Cf. TWIT verb.]
Lay the blame for (a thing) on a person etc. (Foll. by on, to, upon.) OE.
b. Impute as guilt. Also, in neutral sense, impute. LME-M16.
Impute the guilt to, blame, (a person). (Foll. by for, of, with the thing imputed.) ME.

Tupperian (iou)



Tupperian adjective. M19.
[from Martin F. Tupper (1810-1899), English writer + -IAN.]
Of, belonging to, or in the style of Martin F. Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy (1838-42), a moralistic work popular in the 19th cent.
'Tupperism noun a saying or generalization characteristic of those in Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy L19.