striplingn.

Brit.

/ˈstrɪplɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈstrɪplɪŋ/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s strepelynge, stryplynge, Middle English–1500s striplyng, 1500s stripelyng, strypplyng(e, 1500s–1600s strippling (1500s stripplyng), 1600s, 1800s striplin.

Etymology: Probably < strip n.¹ (though that word is not recorded before the 15th cent.) + -ling suffix¹. 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.

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the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun]

frumberdlingc1000

young manOE

childc1225

hind1297

pagec1300

youtha1325

fawnc1369

swainc1386

stripling1398

boy1440

springaldc1450

jovencel1490

younkera1522

speara1529

gorrel1530

lad1535

hobbledehoy1540

cockerel1547

waga1556

spring1559

loonc1560

hensure1568

youngster1577

imp1578

pigsney1581

cocklinga1586

demy1589

muchacho1591

shaver1592

snipper-snappera1593

callant1597

spaught1598

stubble boy1598

ghillie1603

codling1612

cuba1616

skippera1616

man-boy1637

sprig1646

callow1651

halflang1660

stubbed boy1683

gossoon1684

gilpie1718

stirraha1722

young lion1792

halfling1794

pubescent1795

young man1810

sixteener1824

señorito1843

tad1845

boysie1846

shaveling1854

ephebe1880

boychick1921

lightie1946

young blood1967

studmuffin1986

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. i. 186 Adolescencia the aege of a yonge stryplynge duryth the thyrd vii yere.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxvii. 278 The faireste ȝonge striplynges.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ciiii. f. xli Arthurus the sone of Uter Pendragon a strepelynge of .xv. yeres of Age.

1569 R. Grafton 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.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xvii. 56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose sonne the stripling is.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 103 From a child he starts up a youth, and becomes a stripling.

1745 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 128 The only son I have left me, being but a stripling of fourtein years age.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. lii. 262 He affected to speak slightingly of Alexander, as a stripling.

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic ix This proves mere Stripling's amusement.

figurative and in extended use.1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise ii. ii. 17 I'm but a Sripling [sic] in the Trade of War.1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 32 A conceited School-master is but a stripling in Pedantry to him.1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 19 An amiable stripling of a river.1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 230 My trees ran up so rapidly and such striplings that tornadoes blew down two or three.

2. attributive (chiefly appositive) passing into adjective.

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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 7 The stripelyng age, or spryng tide.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 413 He tyraniz'd among his stripling-peeres.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 4 Having convers'd much with a stripling Divine or two of those newly fledge Probationers, that usually come scouting from the University.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 636 A stripling Cherube.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 194 Gay, stripling youths.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 107 Before his stripling arm Fled Warwick.

1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 205 Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stripling
释义	striplingn. Brit. /ˈstrɪplɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstrɪplɪŋ/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s strepelynge, stryplynge, Middle English–1500s striplyng, 1500s stripelyng, strypplyng(e, 1500s–1600s strippling (1500s stripplyng), 1600s, 1800s striplin. Etymology: Probably < strip n.¹ (though that word is not recorded before the 15th cent.) + -ling suffix¹. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. i. 186 Adolescencia the aege of a yonge stryplynge duryth the thyrd vii yere. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxvii. 278 The faireste ȝonge striplynges. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ciiii. f. xli Arthurus the sone of Uter Pendragon a strepelynge of .xv. yeres of Age. 1569 R. Grafton 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. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xvii. 56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose sonne the stripling is. View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 103 From a child he starts up a youth, and becomes a stripling. 1745 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 128 The only son I have left me, being but a stripling of fourtein years age. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. lii. 262 He affected to speak slightingly of Alexander, as a stripling. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic ix This proves mere Stripling's amusement. figurative and in extended use.1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise ii. ii. 17 I'm but a Sripling [sic] in the Trade of War.1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 32 A conceited School-master is but a stripling in Pedantry to him.1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 19 An amiable stripling of a river.1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 230 My trees ran up so rapidly and such striplings that tornadoes blew down two or three. 2. attributive (chiefly appositive) passing into adjective. ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 7 The stripelyng age, or spryng tide. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 413 He tyraniz'd among his stripling-peeres. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 4 Having convers'd much with a stripling Divine or two of those newly fledge Probationers, that usually come scouting from the University. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 636 A stripling Cherube. View more context for this quotation 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 194 Gay, stripling youths. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 107 Before his stripling arm Fled Warwick. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 205 Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398
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