whipstern.
/ˈwɪpstə/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpstər/ 1. A vague term of reproach, contempt, or the like, with various shades of meaning.
a. A lively, smart, reckless, violent, or mischievous person. Obsolete or dialect.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigorous or energetic person
pealerc1400
terrier1532
swinger1583
whipster1590
fireman1648
my (also me) hearty1735
whitherer1790
spunkie1806
vigorist1807
spunk1808
goer1811
smiter1823
hard hitter1831
blue hen's chicken (also chick)1859
stem-winder1875
vital force1886
live wire1896
towser1901
powerhouse1908
jazzer1912
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt
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geggea1300
fox-whelpc1320
creaturea1325
whelp1338
scoutc1380
turnbroach14..
foumart1508
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get?a1513
strummel?a1513
scofting?1518
pismirea1535
clinchpoop1555
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huddle and twang1578
whipster1590
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tailor1607
turnspit1607
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bulchin1617
trundle-taila1626
tick1631
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fart1669
insect1684
mully-grub-gurgeon1746
grub-worm1752
rass1790
foutre1794
blister1806
snot1809
skin1825
scurf1851
scut1873
Siwash1882
stiff1882
bleeder1887
blighter1896
sugar1916
vuilgoed1924
klunk1942
fart sack1943
fart-arse1946
jerkwad1980
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2 They had neede be large long Spoons..if I come to feed with such whipsters.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 25 You that intende to be fine companionable gentlemen, smirkinge wittes, and whipsters in the world.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 18 Cupid feigned as a boy,..because he is an underwitted whipster [L. nugator], that neither acts nor thinks any thing with discretion.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Whipster, a sharp, or subtil Fellow.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 80 The whipsters roam in truant bands about the neighbourhood.
1906 T. Sinton Poetry of Badenoch 432 Like a whipster from school.
b. A wanton, lascivious, or licentious person, a debauchee. Obsolete or dialect.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > person
ribald1340
shaker?a1500
whipster1593
Cyprian1598
wantoner1665
free-liver1711
rep1747
loose fish1809
1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 81 I should quite fray away many of M. Anthonies companions from bestowing their affections on so liberall whipsters.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iv. 44 There were Whipsters abroad, i' faith, Padders of Maiden-heads.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife v. 68 To deliver up her fair Body, to be tumbled and mumbled, by that young Liquorish Whipster.
1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 471 Whipster, a doubtful character.]
c. A slight, insignificant, or contemptible person. (The current literary sense, often with the epithet puny, after Shakespeare.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > paltry, mean, or contemptible
turdc1400
shrub1566
skybala1572
peltera1577
whipstart1581
smatchetc1582
squib1586
paltripolitan1588
scrub1589
Jack-a-Lent1596
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whipstera1616
whimling1616
whiffler1659
insignificancy1661
insect1684
insignificant1710
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sniff1890
picayune1903
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 251 I am not valiant neither, But euery puny whipster gets my sword. View more context for this quotation
1682 T. D'Urfey Injured Princess iv. iv A plaguy little Whipster this.
1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert Prol. Each puny Whipster here, is Wit enough.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxiv. 333 When I first saw this whipster.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 86 Every little whipster of a French poet.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains iii. 141 No tearful whipster.
2. One who wields a whip:
a. a driver of horses.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of horses
whipstock1615
whipster1651
whip1775
whipman1797
1651 J. Cleveland News from Newcastle 2 He'd leave the trotting Whipster, and prefer Our profound Vulcan 'bove that Wagoner.
1825 C. Lamb Ass in Wks. (1903) I. 304 To see one of those refiners in discipline himself at the cart's tail, with just such a convenient spot laid bare to the tender mercies of the whipster.
b. one addicted to whipping or flogging, a scourger, lasher (also figurative). ? Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips
whipper1552
jerker1565
scourger1580
lasher1611
firkera1626
whipster1670
yarker1677
bone-polisher1803
horsewhipper1808
flagellator1824
thong-man1876
sjambokker1953
1670 Comenius Janua Ling. §504. 132 A school master should take care of being curst (a whipster).
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) R 2 The Whipsters..laid aside their Disciplines.
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