Tupperware
pronunciation
How to pronounce Tupperware in British English:
UK [ˈtʌpəweə(r)]
How to pronounce Tupperware in American English:
US [ˈtʌpərwer]
Word Origin
- Tupperware (n.)
- 1954, trademark (reg. U.S.), from Earl S. Tupper, president of Tupper Corp., + ware (n.). Patent claims use from 1950.
Example
- 1. Where do you want meto set up my tupperware ?
- 2. How can you not have tupperware ?
- 3. Becky 's solution : before you give up hope , try dropping your soaked gear into a tupperware container full of rice to draw out the moisture .
- 4. But instead I shuffled into the dining room and sat at one of the long tables next to a grandmotherly woman eating from a tupperware bowl .
- 5. Tupperware has ditched its museum of food containers in kissimmee , florida ( though it maintains something similar in orlando ) .