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View synonyms for stripling

stripling

[ strip-ling ]

noun

  1. a youth.


stripling

/ ˈstrɪplɪŋ /

noun

  1. a lad


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stripling1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; strip 2, -ling 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stripling1

C13: from strip ² + -ling 1

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Example Sentences

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.

Oh, what a foolish stripling Am I, who here about four days have wandered In quest of a mere phantom!

An ambitious stripling has only to brandish his sword and shout a few magniloquent words to induce them to rush to certain death.

Goodness is proper to the aged; it is their sole glory; why should this milky stripling bring it into disrepute?

I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs.

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