"snipper-snapper" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1883, Mary Jane Holmes, Queenie Hetherton: A Novel, page 406",
          "text": "Why, I thought you liked it immensely : women generally do; but it shows your good sense not to want to be stared at and written up by a lot of snipper-snappers.",
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          "ref": "1914, Devabrata Mukherjee (translator), Rabindranath Tagore (original), The Post Office",
          "text": "Let me find him once and I'll make him dance. Oh, you snipper-snapper! I'll get the King's letter sent to your house indeed I will!",
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        "A worthless or insignificant person."
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