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whip⋅per⋅snap⋅per

  [hwip-er-snap-er, wip-]
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–noun
an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, esp. a young one.
Origin:
1665–75; prob. b. earlier whipster and snippersnapper, similar in sense; see whip, snap, -er 1
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whip·per·snap·per   (hwĭp'ər-snāp'ər, wĭp'-)   
n.  A person regarded as insignificant and pretentious.

[Alteration (influenced by whip) of dialectal snippersnapper.]
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whippersnapper 
1674, apparently a "jingling extension" [OED] of *whip-snapper "a cracker of whips," or perhaps an alteration of snipper-snapper (c.1590). Cf. also late 16c. whipperginnie, a term of abuse for a woman.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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