whipper-snapper

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  1. A shallow, insignificant person; a whipster: also used attributively. A parcel of whipper-snapper sparks. Fielding, Joseph Andrews, iv. 6. Much as he had ingratiated himself with his aunt, she had never yet invited him to stay under her roof, and here was a young whipper snapper who at first sight was made welcome there. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxiv.

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  1. Prob. a balanced form of whip-snapper, ‘one who has nothing to do but snap or crack the whip.’
 

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