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whippersnapper

[ hwip-er-snap-er, wip- ]

noun

  1. an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.


whippersnapper

/ ˈwɪpəˌsnæpə /

noun

  1. an insignificant but pretentious or cheeky person, often a young one Also calledwhipster
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whippersnapper1

1665–75; probably blend of earlier whipster and snippersnapper, similar in sense; whip, snap, -er 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of whippersnapper1

C17: probably from whipsnapper a person who snaps whips, influenced by earlier snippersnapper, of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

We meet our snapper first as a whippersnapper—shot by who knows?

Here is the proof: even as a whippersnapper, young Rand seemed to love the cornea.

"This Desmarais is himself the hero of that episode you refer to—the very same whippersnapper," answered the Count.

By my sowl thin, you know betther thoughts than your own, Mr. Whippersnapper, if that's the name you go by.

You don't mean to say, Aaron Bickford, that you let a whippersnapper like that defy you?

He had not been eating much lately—he had better get that little whippersnapper who attended Holly to give him a tonic.

What any decent, respectable, hard-working man would do,—bring back the girl and horsewhip that whippersnapper.

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