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Originally Posted by daffy4u
Happy Birthday you young whipper snapper! (what the heck does that mean?)
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whippersnapper
1674, apparently a "jingling extension" [OED] of *whip-snapper "a cracker of whips," or perhaps an alteration of snipper-snapper (c.1590). Cf. also late 16c. whipperginnie, a term of abuse for a woman.
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Jingling extension? Sounds like a dangling chad, to me.
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