stripling

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English - English
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad

For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

a mere youth
{n} a youth, young or very weak man
People sometimes refer to a young man as a stripling when they want to indicate in a slightly humorous way that although he is no longer a boy, he is not yet really a man. a stripling of
A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity (syn: adolescent, teenager)
a boy who is almost a young man - sometimes used humorously about a man who is quite old = youth (Probably from STRIP + -ling; from the idea of being thin)
{i} youth, young man
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

Related Terms

striplings
plural of stripling
stripling

    Hyphenation

    strip·ling

    Turkish pronunciation

    strîplîng

    Pronunciation

    /ˈstrəpləɴɢ/ /ˈstrɪplɪŋ/
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