Stripling Definition

strĭplĭng
striplings
noun
striplings
A male adolescent or young adult.
American Heritage
A grown boy; youth passing into manhood.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Stripling

Noun

Singular:
stripling
Plural:
striplings

Origin of Stripling

  • Middle English possibly from strip strip strip2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stripling Sentence Examples

  • There I was, a mere stripling of a lad, doing one of his first cameras.

  • The latter had become a tall, handsome stripling during his residence abroad, and bid fair to rival Bax himself in stature.

  • And if I ca n't overbid such a stripling as he, then I'm not wo'th a varden!

  • But the latter, although himself a mere stripling, had implicit faith in Goethe, and a firm conviction that his genius could be utilized in other fields besides literature.

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