Meaning & use
whippersnapper
A young, inexperienced person regarded as overly confident, cheeky, or presumptuous, often used humorously by an older speaker.
See it in a sentence
The old farmer laughed and told the whippersnapper to mind his manners.
Slow down, whippersnapper, some of us aren't as quick as we used to be.
A note on using this word
Whippersnapper is old-fashioned and almost always used playfully or affectionately by an older person addressing someone much younger.
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