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单词 snipper-snapper
释义

snipper-snappern.

Etymology: Of fanciful formation: compare whippersnapper n.
Now dialect.
A young insignificant or conceited fellow.
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the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun]
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [noun] > conceited person
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swell-head1845
swelled head1862
big-head1863
swollen head1898
Jack Strop1910
trombenik1922
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. E2 Ile seeke out my Doctor..: O yonder is his snipper snapper.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C4 Quicke snipper snapper, away Fyrk, scowre thy throate.
1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 7 Th'art..a knacke, a snipper-snapper.
1677 Poor Robin's Visions 12 Having ended his discourse, this seeming gentile snipper-snapper vanisht.
1835 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 108 Far better worth listening to than many of the young snipper-snappers of his profession.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 261 Snipper-snapper, a small, insignificant, effeminate, self-conceited young man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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