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whipping-snapping

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Insignificant; diminutive.

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Examples

  • Though they had seven-leagued boots, you remember all sorts of little whipping-snapping Tom Thumbs used to elude and outrun them.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Though they had seven-leagued boots, you remember all sorts of little whipping-snapping Tom Thumbs used to elude and outrun them.

    Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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