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stripling|ˈstrɪplɪŋ|
Also 4–6 strepe-, stryplynge, 5–6 striplyng, 6 stripelyng, strypplyng(e, 6–7 strippling (6 -yng), 7, 9 striplin.
[Prob. f. strip n.1 (though that word is not recorded before the 15th c.) + -ling1.
The etymological notion seems to be ‘one who is slender as a strip’, one whose figure is not yet filled out.]
1. A youth, one just passing from boyhood to manhood.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. i. (1495) 186 Adolescencia the aege of a yonge stryplynge duryth the thyrd vii yere. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxvii. 278 The faireste ȝonge striplynges. a1513Fabyan Chron. v. civ. (1811) 79 Arthurus, the sone of Vter Pendragon, a strepelynge of .xv. yeres of Age. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 139 Euery stripplyng of the age of .xii. yeres and aboue, before his Alderman in his warde was newly charged with the same othe. 1611Bible 1 Sam. xvii. 56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose sonne the stripling is. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. vi. 103 From a child he starts up a youth, and becomes a stripling. 1745in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 128 The only son I have left me, being but a stripling of fourtein years age. 1839Thirlwall Greece lii. VI. 262 He affected to speak slightingly of Alexander, as a stripling. 1878Browning Poets Croisic ix, This proves mere Stripling's amusement.
transf. and fig.1683Dryden Dk. Guise ii. ii, I'm but a Stripling in the Trade of War. 1693Humours Town 32 A conceited School-master is but a stripling in Pedantry to him. 1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes (1886) 19 An amiable stripling of a river. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 230 My trees ran up so rapidly and such striplings that tornadoes blew down two or three.
2. attrib. (chiefly appositive) passing into adj.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 7 The stripelyng age, or spryng tide. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. ii. Babylon 51 He tyranniz'd among his strippling-peers. 1645Milton Colast. 4 Having convers'd much with a stripling Divine or two of those newly fledge Probationers, that usually come scouting from the University. 1667― P.L. iii. 636 A stripling Cherube. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 194 Gay, stripling youths. 1795Southey Joan of Arc vii. 107 Before his stripling arm Fled Warwick. 1853M. Arnold Scholar Gypsy viii, Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe. |