whiffet

American  

[hwif-it, wif-] / ˈʰwɪf ɪt, ˈwɪf- /

noun

1. Informal. an insignificant person; whippersnapper.

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Etymology

Origin of whiffet

1795–1805, whiff ¹ + -et, modeled on whippet

Example Sentences

This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I never felt sorry for the little whiffet before," said the fat jailer, when he came out.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

One little whiffet told Dyckman to his face that it was a dastardly thing he had done.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

By-and-bye, when school was in and the dominie dozed, I would lower that timid little whiffet of a Puritan maid out through the window to the turnstile.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

He was a little whiffet of a man—“looked like a figure on a New Year’s cake,” Bobby Hargrew said.

From The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize by Morrison, Gertrude W.