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whipsters

whipsters is the plural of whipster.

Meaning of whipster

Noun

whipster (plural whipsters)

  1. (dated, informal) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy
    • 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...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)

Questions about whipsters

What is whipsters the plural of?
Whipsters is the plural of whipster.

Words near whipsters in the dictionary

  1. whipstalled
  2. whipstalling
  3. whipstalls
  4. whipstaves
  5. whipster
  6. whipsters
  7. whipstick
  8. whipsticks
  9. whipstitch
  10. whipstitched
  11. whipstitches

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