snipper-snapper

English

Etymology

From late 16th c.[1]

Noun

snipper-snapper (plural snipper-snappers)

  1. (colloquial, dated) A small, insignificant fellow.
    • 1883, Mary Jane Holmes, Queenie Hetherton: A Novel, page 406:
      Why, I thought you liked it immensely : women generally do; but it shows your good sense not to want to be stared at and written up by a lot of snipper-snappers.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snipper-snapper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

References
  1. “whipper-snapper” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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