How To Use Whipper In A Sentence

  • See, we old fogies can be just as smart-alecky as the young whippersnappers!
  • Their great days are behind them, and like crusty old men, they've turned bitter and twisted, watching the young whippersnapper across the sea party, get hungover, and party again the next night.
  • He said members of Cope's whippery in Parliament had not been briefed on Shilowa's submission of the "so-called audited status" of the party's parliamentary finances and were not aware that these were being submitted to Parliament on their behalf. IOL: News
  • This man, the first whipper-in, was accompanied by two thorough-bred dogs, — fox-hounds, white, with liver spots, long in the leg, fine in the muzzle, with slender heads, and little ears at their crests. Modeste Mignon
  • Where is the dollar that you got with this note?" asked the "whipper," as he finished reading the epistle. My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
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  • He was a young whippersnapper who made me feel old, but great fun.
  • The examples are legion: caretaker, steamroller, gag, passing the torch, and domino theory are among them, though whip (abbreviation of the foxhunting term whipper-in) is not metaphorical in the sense often erroneously supposed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
  • It may be hard for younger whippersnappers to comprehend just how bad music was in the mid-70s.
  • But maybe the incessant weeping is legitimate; the way these whippersnappers treat their elders these days would bring any geriatric to tears.
  • ‘We're a very friendly, laid-back hunt with nothing toffee-nosed about us at all,’ says recently-promoted joint hunt master Judith Skilbeck, also whipper-in.
  • I reckon giving that young whippersnapper an early taste of local body politics will immunise him against parochial politics for life.
  • There's a decent-sized cult coalition that seems to think this young whippersnapper will eventually do something other than grow his own mutual funds.
  • The revived pack were, of course, fox-hounds and Patricia Loftus was the joint master with the late Dr. O'Brien as well as being the first whipper-in.
  • The harsh reality that we young whippersnappers hate to face is that most people in America actually don't think like us and our friends.
  • A young whippersnapper at the Department of State was willing to discuss this sensitive matter on background.
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  • Disraeli, not yet fully recognised as leader of the protectionists, was working hard for that position, and assumed the manners of it, with Beresford, a kind of whipper-in, for his right-hand man. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
  • By that time the Republican President was a whippersnapper named Teddy Roosevelt, whose imperialism Twain scorned (he called TR a Tom Sawyer type). The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
  • They are their own fanfare, their own roll on the kettle-drums, their own whipper-in. Another Voice
  • Especially when you realize this senior bowwow also won Best-in-Breed at Westminster, the Sporting Breed that is, which means he out-ranks all those young whipper-snappers in the physical exertion and skill category. Tom Alderman: Stump, the Geezer -- A Shaggy Dog Tale
  • A huntsman manages the dogs with the help of his assistants, the whippers-in.
  • Ahenobarbus was pouring out upon their inefficiency a torrent of wrathful malediction, that promised employment for the "whipper" for some time to come. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
  • So it took me some time to come to terms with the fact that he supports fox hunting and his son is a whipper-in.
  • As far as Vionne could see, the three of them plus the whipper were the only people in the place. City of Glory
  • His whippers-in rap out commands to straying hounds in their unreproducible, never varying, clipped tones.
  • Whipper In finished a good second on her latest start, at Ayr, where she chased home North Walk in a competitive nursery on soft ground.
  • I hope it was Judge Redmond Barry, veteran horse-whipper and sometime defense counsel for my great-great grandfather William Pearson (who, notwithstanding his conviction for assaulting Mr. Desailly, himself went on to become a magistrate in Gippsland, and a member of both houses of the Victorian Parliament). Postera crescam laude II
  • Who are these whippersnappers to pooh-pooh him?
  • In this part of America there is a singular bird, called whipper-will, or whip-poor-will, which has obtained its name from the plaintive noise that it makes. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe
  • In 1793 three months' hunt wages and the expenses of whippers-in, helpers, hounds and horses kept at Gerrards Cross totalled about 200 [pounds sterling], roughly 53,800 [pounds sterling] a year in today's money.
  • He plays an ageing thief whose plans to retire are postponed by a young whipper-snapper who blackmails him into one last blag.
  • One longtime fox hunter, Lewis Sterler, served as a whipper-in from a car with the help of a radio. More British Than Britain
  • You could ask the boss to send a predator drone after Julian Assange kinda likehe jokingly threatened to do to any young whippersnapper who looks at his daughter the wrong way - ha, ha, ha. Gabor Rona: High-tech terrorism or low-tech fear mongering?
  • It was Mrs Staveley who taught its present amateur whipper-in, Eric Simpson, to ride when he took up the sport at the age of 45.
  • The rope arrested my fall what climbers call a whipper and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I hadn't broken or punctured anything. After the Fall, a Lingering Doubt
  • You discover the words, “whippersnapper,” “scalawag” and “by-cracky” creeping into your vocabulary. You Know You’re Over The Hill When… « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
  • The comments from the young whipper snappers were less than complimentary.
  • With all this talk about young whippersnappers trying to get involved in politics, it has been largely overlooked that old coots aren't exactly in the middle of the action.
  • The sportsman toils like his gamekeeper, the master of the pack takes as severe exercise as his whipper-in, the statesman or politician drudges more than the professional lawyer; and, to come to my own case, the volunteer author subjects himself to the risk of painful criticism, and the assured certainty of mental and manual labour, just as completely as his needy brother, whose necessities compel him to assume the pen. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • Most of our family and friends hunt so it seemed a great way to celebrate, " said Richard, a livestock farmer and an amateur whipper-in with the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.
  • Publisher Sander Hicks is a mohawked young whippersnapper, who, despite his defiant appearance, is as slick as they come.
  • Some sounded convincing, and might well have once had unions, such as wherrymen, wharfingers, wainscotters, wainwrights and whippers-in.
  • Among the functionaries are a musician-fool, and a kind of whipper-in called the Pot-raj.
  • And what is Anne McGuire thinking of in acting as a whipper-in for these malcontents?
  • There is also some ado about puppy-walking and what a whipper-in does, and a number of references to hip flasks.
  • The analogy is exact: it is moderately rare for the whipper-in to whip a hound. The Spectator's Notes
  • All the dad-blasted whippersnappers will be effortlessly streaming multisense through their inter-cranial brain-to-cloud hookups, while you try desperately to find some information formatted for your treasured, antique 2D touchscreen. here. The Register
  • The singer, whose son Otis is an assistant whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, which sets off from Malton, has spoken of his support for the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance.
  • They survived the Depression, won a world war, put a man on the moon, and educated all of us young whippersnappers who are now trying to tell them what to do.
  • United States not only believed in slavery, but bought and sold women and babes in the name of Jesus Christ, this infidel, this wretch who is now burning in the flames of hell, lifted his voice against human slavery and said: "It is robbery, and a slaveholder is a thief; the whipper of women is a barbarian; the seller of a child is a savage. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
  • You discover the words, “whippersnapper,” “scalawag” and “by-cracky” creeping into your vocabulary. You Know You’re Over The Hill When… « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
  • Based on the demographics of West Virginia it tells you uneducated white rednecks over 65 years old do not like this young whipper-snipper called "Barrack. Schneider: More sobering news - the value gap
  • The Mirror spoke to our young whippersnapper last weekend from London.
  • Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds. Masters of the Hunt
  • You have to understand that Ray Charles was a young whippersnapper who looked good.
  • Lent; but his voice being so extremely musical, that it rather allured the birds than terrified them, he was soon transplanted from the fields into the dog-kennel, where he was placed under the huntsman, and made what the sportsmen term whipper-in. Joseph Andrews Vol 1
  • Otis was a whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, based at Birdsall, near Malton.
  • I can't promise that you'll like everything - though you'd seriously impress any music-mad whippersnappers if you added them all to your collection.
  • “Here come the ladies,” said the second whipper-in. Modeste Mignon
  • The resistance of the innocent man caused the "whipper" to call in three other sturdy blacks, and, in a few minutes, the victim was fastened upon the stretcher, face downwards, his clothing removed, and the strong-armed white negro-whipper standing over him with uplifted whip. My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
  • But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  • After taking his exams at Marlborough, he went to work for an Irish horse-dealer, then, at 17, joined the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire as a whipper-in.
  • A whipper-in, asked what they would do if they uncovered a quarry, said smiling: ‘We'll have to see what pops up.’
  • Being young and carefree whippersnappers, we at the Reg had never given much thought to our own mortality.
  • They need some young whippersnappers in there.
  • It was the best Devil I ever saw, and riding thus like a whipper-in after the parsons, had a strange and ridiculous appearance. Letter 292
  • Atonality isn't exactly setting the world on fire these days, what with all these whippersnappers and their feel-good postminimalism. Archive 2009-04-01
  • I was going to put the young whippersnapper in his place.
  • We'll show those young whippersnappers a thing or two about vomiting in doorways!
  • Their huntsman was Kieran Barrett, Killarney, and the whippers-in were Donal Murphy, Headford, and Dan O'Sullivan, Gneeveguilla.
  • To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth.
  • The two main components of WhipperSnapper are malted barley (the same stuff they make Scotch from, although this barley is from Oregon) and un-aged or "white dog" Kentucky corn whiskey (from whence comes bourbon). Tony Sachs: When the Leaves Turn Brown, So Does the Booze: Three New Whiskeys for Autumn
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  • In other matches University made it two wins in a row with a 4-2 win over Whippersnappers, although University slipped back to their bad habits and defaulted the bottom two boards.
  • 2004 is a big year, stepping up to play with the big boys on a level playing field, no longer the young whipper snapper who got to gatecrash the elite party.
  • Hell, Max's little whipper 's got more sense than Max does, and she's what, ten? THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
  • So if he runs again, aged 88, the voters know they would be insane to toss that away just because some young whippersnapper agreed with them about mere politics.
  • It ended prematurely when one whipper-in and horse tumbled over a ridge, though neither was injured. More British Than Britain
  • Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds. Masters of the Hunt
  • Mr Ferry began his hunting career as a whipper-in with Yorkshire's Middleton Hunt, before becoming the country's youngest master of a hunt, in Shropshire.
  • As Donaldson is regarded as a divisive whipper-snapper by the elderly gents and dames on the Council, the party leader is probably safe until the autumn.
  • To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth.
  • Mr Ferry is a well-known hunt supporter and joined the Middleton hunt in Yorkshire as a whipper-in four years ago after leaving Marlborough College.

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