whippersnapper

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Joe Root of Trent Rockets says he was "the most surprised person" in Trent Bridge after taking a catch "like a young whippersnapper" to dismiss Manchester Originals' Matty Hurst in the Men's Hundred.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025

To paraphrase the delegate’s argument, she was going to do her part to encourage people to vote whenever she damn well pleased, and was disinclined to submit to scripted choreography dictated by some whippersnapper.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024

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.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024

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.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

“Hundred and fifty million years? A whippersnapper among ammonites, really. What say we buy it for you?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell