Whippersnapper

Definition: Whippersnapper

Whippersnapper

Noun

1. Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.

Note: Whippersnapper \Whip"per*snap`per\, noun. diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person. [Colloq.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Whippersnapper

Synonyms: jackanapes (n), lightweight (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Infant	Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Whippersnapper

English words defined with "whippersnapper": Whipster. (references)

"Whippersnapper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whippersnapper" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "whippersnapper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		klouèek. (various references)

German		knirps (folding umbrella, little fellow, manikin, midget, pigmy, squirt, tot), grünschnabel (an unfledged youth, greenhorn, rookie, sapling). (various references)

Greek		φαντασμένο μηδαμινό άτομο. (various references)

Hebrew		שחצן (arrogant, boastful, conceited, haughty, overbearing, popinjay, presumptuous, smart aleck, snob, snooty). (various references)

Italian		sfrontatello. (various references)

Manx		dolteen (cad). (various references)

Pig Latin		ippersnapperwhay

Portuguese		pessoa metida, pessoa insignificante (insect bite, jack-towel, makeweight, nobody, nought, shrimp), indivíduo pretensioso, franganote impudente. (various references)

Russian		ничтожество (insect, jack sprat, jack-straw, lay, nitwit, nobody, nothingness, nought, nullity, whiffet, whipper-snapper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uobraženko (jackanapes, whipper-snapper). (various references)

Spanish		mequetrefe (coxcomb, jackanapes), casquivano (bird brained, bird witted, empty headed, feckless, harebrained, light-headed, rattle-brained). (various references)

Swedish		snorvalp (whipster), pojkspoling (stripling, whipster, youngster), glop (jackanapes, puppy, whipster), flicksnärta (whipster, young thing). (various references)

Turkish		zıpır delikanlı, kendini bir şey sanan delikanlı, küçük çocuk. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "whippersnapper": whippersnappers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "whippersnapper" (pronounced 'Whip"per*snap`per'): Cappaper, Clodhopper, Coal-whipper, Gallinipper, Grasshopper, handicapper, interloper, Main-hamper, Newspaper, Scotch-hopper, Stereotyper, Understrapper, Wit-snapper. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-n-p-p-p-p-r-r-s-w"
	-5 letters: newspaper, sharpener, whisperer.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-n-p-p-p-p-r-r-s-w"
	+1 letter: whippersnappers.
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