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whippersnapper
noun as in boy
noun as in brat
Strong matches
noun as in child
noun as in enfant terrible
noun as in holy terror
Weak matches
Example Sentences
A late-career lark for Steve Martin and Martin Short has become a beloved television institution; teamed with relative whippersnapper Selena Gomez, they form a comedy trio like none other.
The whippersnapper was about 5 to 7 years old, some 4 meters long, and weighed about 350 kilograms—as much as a large domestic pig, and about 1/10 the heft of its parent.
Bankman-Fried was a pretrial whippersnapper in other respects.
“I’m 72 and I’m a young whippersnapper here in The Villages,” said Diane Foley, the president of The Villages Democratic Club at the Republican-tilted mega-retirement community in Florida, who encouraged Mr. Biden to run again.
Ms. Pelosi is “a once-in-a-century kind of figure, but there are other great leaders here,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, who, at 59, qualifies as something of a whippersnapper in an aging Congress.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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