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strip⋅ling

  [strip-ling]
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–noun
a youth.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see strip 2 , -ling 1
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strip·ling   (strĭp'lĭng)   
n.  An adolescent youth.

[Middle English, possibly from strip, strip; see strip2.]
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stripling 
"a youth," 1398, possibly from strip (n.) "long, narrow piece," on the notion of "one who is slender as a strip, whose figure is not yet filled out."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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