Whippersnapper (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The young journalist was a whippersnapper who thought he could take on the seasoned editor with his radical ideas.
- The new intern was a bit of a whippersnapper, always trying to tell the senior staff how to do their jobs.
- The teenager was a whippersnapper who thought he knew more about music than his parents, who had been fans of rock and roll for decades.
- After just one week on the job, the whippersnapper was already questioning the company's long-standing policies.
- The whippersnapper of a nephew was always trying to convince his aunts and uncles to invest in his hare-brained schemes.