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Subject: whippersnapper: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Dec. 13, 2014

whippersnapper \HWIP-er-snap-er, WIP-\ noun 1. an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one. Quotes He had not been eating much lately—he had better get that little whippersnapper who attended Holly to give him a tonic. -- John Galsworthy, "Indian Summer of a Forsyte," Five Tales, 1918 Origin Whippersnapper came to English in the mid-1600s and is probably a blend of the earlier terms whipster and snippersnapper.

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