whip
verb (used with object)
whipper
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a word derived from
whip.
Example Sentences
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An empty head, a little whipper snapper, who admires only himself, and chatters pleasantly, because he has good manners, can plead with us about his love with complete impunity.
From The McNaughtens by Frank J. Morlock
"For a coat for the whipper, and making, 3s."
From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney
Jeekum had fallen upon his knees beside the whipper.
From The Courage of Captain Plum by James Oliver Curwood
It is the whipper who is whipped and the tyrant who is undone.--Emerson.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin
Foundation was fourth and Yankee Notions fifth, the rest were distant trailers, with Leochares the whipper in.
From History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 by John Lawrence O'Connor
