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noun
- 1. a young man: archaic, humorous "he's a mere stripling"
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noun. strip· ling ˈstri-pliŋ. Synonyms of stripling. : youth sense 2a. Synonyms. boychick. boychik. boyo [ Irish] callant [ chiefly Scottish] laddie. nipper. shaveling. shaver. sonny. tad. youth. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of stripling in a Sentence.
Example Sentences. The heir apparent (a stripling of 61) is not universally popular. From The Daily Beast. The bellicose ardor of the stripling seemed to strike the royal envoy even more forcibly than anything he had yet seen. From Project Gutenberg.
noun [ C ] old-fashioned or humorous us / ˈstrɪp.lɪŋ / uk / ˈstrɪp.lɪŋ / Add to word list. a young man: He is a mere stripling of 18. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Young people. adolescence. adolescent. baby. boyhood. emo. laddishness. larrikin. mall rat. minor. skinhead. Teddy boy. teenager. teenybopper. tween. youngster.
noun [ C ] old-fashioned or humorous uk / ˈstrɪp.lɪŋ / us / ˈstrɪp.lɪŋ / Add to word list. a young man: He is a mere stripling of 18. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Young people. adolescence. adolescent. baby. boyhood. emo. laddishness. larrikin. mall rat. minor. skinhead. Teddy boy. teenager. teenybopper. tween. youngster.
noun. 1. a boy or young man. 2. informal. a familiar form of address for any male. 3. a lively or dashing man or youth (esp in the phrase a bit of a lad) 4. a young man whose behaviour is characteristic of male adolescents, esp in being rowdy, macho, or immature. 5. British. a boy or man who looks after horses. Collins English Dictionary.
Noun. 1. stripling - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. adolescent, teen, teenager. juvenile, juvenile person - a young person, not fully developed. chebab - a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis.
Exactly how the strip part applies is lost in the mists of time, but it may have to do with being thin as a strip from lacking the muscular development of full manhood: the word stripling is a somewhat poetic epithet for a youth. Definitions of stripling. noun. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.
Jun 2, 2024 · stripling (plural striplings) ( archaic,also attributive,sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. [from 14th c.] . Synonyms: sapling, shaveling, (archaic, rare) springald; see also Thesaurus: boy.
Definition of stripling noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. Filter. noun. striplings. A male adolescent or young adult. American Heritage. A grown boy; youth passing into manhood. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: teenager. adolescent. lad. boy. minor. youngster. youth. fledgling. Other Word Forms of Stripling. Noun. Singular: stripling. Plural: striplings. Origin of Stripling.
