What's the difference between cheeky and whippersnapper?
Cheeky
Definition:
() a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Magnussen performed a cheeky pass on Hulkenberg before they reached the second safety line, controversial.
(2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(3) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
(4) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
(5) 'He’s still a cheeky little sod, but he’s definitely a nicer boy' … Allan and Michelle Darwin with their son Zane.
(6) However, give or take the odd cheeky top-up, here I am in the one-glass-of-wine-a-night zone.
(7) (Plus, he was still willing to play the cheeky bad boy, criticising Sainsbury's stance on chicken, and only apologising to the company once he had got his message across.)
(8) It was a cheeky thing to say since "misuse" is a loaded term.
(9) John Oliver's cheeky net neutrality plea crashes FCC website Read more Spurred on by online activists including Fight for the Future , a six-person team that has managed to coordinate protests with people and companies including Reddit, Netflix, Mozilla and PornHub, people have now submitted more than four million comments on the FCC proposals.
(10) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
(11) His assertion in interviews that the borrowing rate is 8.9% to 14.9% is also a little bit cheeky.
(12) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
(13) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
(14) "Or is he off being cheeky and cheerful (but ineffective) somewhere else?
(15) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
(16) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
(17) What makes cheeky Salmond think an independent Scotland would be allowed to use the pound, or enter the EU, or be admitted to Nato?
(18) Andrew is an extrovert, a cheerful lovely soul, a cheeky guy,” says Morrissey.
(19) I remember those children when we first met them, and they were so bubbly, and so vibrant and cheeky and funny and just over time how their personality would change,” Reen said.
(20) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.
Whippersnapper
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lowry didn't have his first London exhibition until the beginning of his sixth decade, which puts whippersnappers such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin in their place.
(2) "You know, if I'm on a programme with some know-it-all whippersnapper, I become rather Lady Bracknell and say: 'My dear boy, if you'd been around the block as often as I have, then you'd be rather embarrassed by what you're saying...' It's revenge for all the times I've been patronised.
(3) Jowell went in 2007 and was replaced by the ambitious young whippersnapper James Purnell.
(4) Pocketing Murdoch's old media shilling and organising Vice's output into more formalised channels – it announced plans to launch a "food vertical for global youth" last month, and five more channels are coming this year – might prompt suggestions that the perennial enfants terribles are becoming old-fashioned, just as BuzzFeed and other innovative whippersnappers are threatening to eat their lunch.
(5) It is a little shabby round the edges now that whippersnappers like Padstow get all the limelight, but a lick of paint, a drop of new blood, and it'd come up beautiful once more.
(6) The lesson has been well and quickly learned, particularly by the Red franchise, in which almost every actor qualifies for an OAP bus pass, and chief among whose pleasures is the opportunity to watch Dame Helen Mirren behind the sights of some mega machine gun, or knocking sense into a dozen whippersnappers with a few well-placed elbow-jabs, head-butts and groin-stompings.
(7) I was but a whippersnapper when I started to work for Gawker in 2007.
(8) As a young whippersnapper of a duke, do you really want the sartorial point of comparison to be with the prime minster?
(9) Liverpool are interested in this whippersnapper and a lot of people are expecting him to make a big name for himself at this World Cup.