snippersnapper (sniper snap"er)

A small, insignificant fellow; a whipper-snapper. [Col Having ended his discourse, this seeming gentile snipper. snapper vanisht, so did the rout of the non sensi call deluding star-gazers, and I was left alone. Poor Robin's Visions (1677), p. 12. ( Hall i well .) snippet (snip'et), n. [ The craze to have everything served up in snippets , the desire to be fed on seasoned or sweetened tid-bits, may be deplored. Contemporary Rev. , XLIX. 673.