The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whipster \Whip"ster\, n. [Whip + -ster.] A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.
Every puny whipster gets my sword.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context informal dated English) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy
Usage examples of "whipster".
Even Rolin, a known whipster, had all he could do to keep his blacks from bolting.
An act which had condescending eyebrows raised by various watching gentry at the sight of a dandified whipster waiting on his tiger.
Our literature, before long, will be like some of those premature and aspiring whipsters, who become old men before they are young ones, and fancy they prove their manhood by their profligacy and their diseases.
But then he seemed able to deal with any and every situation that occurred with unerring self-confidence, from petty thieves and amateur whipsters to eloping couples and driving a coach and four, not to mention giving orders to ostlers and innkeepers and making one and all jump to obey.
I should have known how it would be, from a couple of cow-handed whipsters as little able to control a worn-out donkey as a pair of carriage-horses!
Our literature, before long, will be like some of those premature and aspiring whipsters, who become old men before they are young ones, and fancy they prove their manhood by their profligacy and their diseases.