stripling

[ strip-ling ]
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noun
  1. a youth.

Origin of stripling

1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at strip2, -ling1

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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. Trowbridge
  • Babes of five have been known to die of senile decay, and I have seen irresponsible striplings of seventy.

    Simon the Jester | William J. Locke
  • Then, again, it might be they scorned to show the white feather in connection with a pursuit conducted by mere striplings.

  • These young striplings have not raced over moors and downs in the game of fox and hounds for nothing.

    Ande Trembath | Matthew Stanley Kemp
  • The 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

stripling

/ (ˈstrɪplɪŋ) /


noun
  1. a lad

Origin of stripling

1
C13: from strip ² + -ling 1

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