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English
Etymology
Derived from whip + -ster. Rather from the verb than the noun.
Noun
whipster (plural whipsters)
- (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):Every pitifullest whipster that walks within a skin has his head filled with the notion that he is, shall be, or by all human and divine laws ought to be, ‘happy.’ His wishes, the pitifullest whipster’s, are to be fulfilled for him; his days, the pitifullest whipster’s, are to flow on in ever-gentle current of enjoyment, impossible even for the gods.
1994, Christmas Ecapade, page 117:A cow-handed whipster. Rides well enough, but not handy with a team.
References
- (dutch) Van Dale Groot Woordenboek Engels-Nederlands & Nederlands-Engels
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