stripling
a youth.
Origin of stripling
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How to use stripling in a sentence
The heir apparent (a stripling of 61) is not universally popular.
The bellicose ardor of the stripling seemed to strike the royal envoy even more forcibly than anything he had yet seen.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueOh, what a foolish stripling Am I, who here about four days have wandered In quest of a mere phantom!
The Death of Balder | Johannes EwaldAn ambitious stripling has only to brandish his sword and shout a few magniloquent words to induce them to rush to certain death.
My Religion | Leo TolstoyGoodness is proper to the aged; it is their sole glory; why should this milky stripling bring it into disrepute?
The Fiend's Delight | Dod Grile
I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs.
The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
British Dictionary definitions for stripling
/ (ˈstrɪplɪŋ) /
a lad
Origin of stripling
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