stripling
a youth.
Origin of stripling
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How to use stripling in a sentence
But this young Talbot was not one of your commonplace striplings who sway like reeds before the wind.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. TrowbridgeBabes of five have been known to die of senile decay, and I have seen irresponsible striplings of seventy.
Simon the Jester | William J. LockeThen, again, it might be they scorned to show the white feather in connection with a pursuit conducted by mere striplings.
Motor Boat Boys' River Chase | Louis ArundelThese young striplings have not raced over moors and downs in the game of fox and hounds for nothing.
Ande Trembath | Matthew Stanley KempThe fences here are all made of the thinnest lath striplings and seem put up more as suggestions than to compel!
Autumn Impressions of the Gironde | Isabel Giberne Sieveking
British Dictionary definitions for stripling
/ (ˈstrɪplɪŋ) /
a lad
Origin of stripling
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