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Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
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whippersnapper
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Whippersnapper was an English folk band formed in 1984, consisting of Dave Swarbrick ( fiddle , mandolin , vocals ), Chris Leslie (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Kevin Dempsey ( guitar , vocals) and Martin Jenkins ( mando-cello , flute , vocals). Swarbrick ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whippersnapper \Whip"per*snap`per\, n. A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person. [Colloq.] ``Little whippersnappers like you.'' --T. Hughes.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An older Tony Gwynn must compete only with that whippersnapper and a young Dave Winfield with an aversion to the right-field wall.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a young and cheeky or presumptuous person
Usage examples of whippersnapper.
Thekla and Harras parented Prinz -- well, then, my father, Herr Leeb, a few gentlemen with gold Party badges, four or five young whippersnappers in uniform but older than I, we all stood in silence, steeling ourselves.
All the deserving citizens, among them Herr Leeb of Ohra, to whom the meanwhile deceased Thekla of Schüddelkau had belonged -- Thekla and Harras parented Prinz -- well, then, my father, Herr Leeb, a few gentlemen with gold Party badges, four or five young whippersnappers in uniform but older than I, we all stood in silence, steeling ourselves.
Also must remember what happened last time snogged whippersnapper: ghastly 'Ooh, you're all squashy' humiliation with Gav.