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Definition of stripling in English: striplingnoun ˈstrɪplɪŋˈstrɪplɪŋ humorous, archaic A young man. Example sentencesExamples - Fast forward almost 21 years, to last Monday, when the Celtic under-21 team took on Kilmarnock's striplings.
- Long ago, when Al was a mere stripling of 83, the Players Club gave him a testimonial.
- Surely, though, there could be no such problem with filming a stripling of a novel, published a mere five years ago?
- ‘I did not know him as a stripling, travelling around Scotland in the back of a bus,’ she says, with a smile.
- The police officer, a mere stripling of 35, was called to a nursing home where the woman was visiting a friend.
Synonyms youth, adolescent, youngster, boy, schoolboy, lad, child, teenager, juvenile, minor, junior, young man, whippersnapper, fledgling Scottish laddie, bairn West Indian pickney informal kid, young 'un, nipper, shaver, tot derogatory brat, urchin, guttersnipe archaic hobbledehoy
Origin Middle English: probably from strip2 (from the notion of ‘narrowness’, i.e. slimness) + -ling. Definition of stripling in US English: striplingnounˈstripliNGˈstrɪplɪŋ humorous, archaic A young man. Example sentencesExamples - Fast forward almost 21 years, to last Monday, when the Celtic under-21 team took on Kilmarnock's striplings.
- ‘I did not know him as a stripling, travelling around Scotland in the back of a bus,’ she says, with a smile.
- Surely, though, there could be no such problem with filming a stripling of a novel, published a mere five years ago?
- The police officer, a mere stripling of 35, was called to a nursing home where the woman was visiting a friend.
- Long ago, when Al was a mere stripling of 83, the Players Club gave him a testimonial.
Synonyms youth, adolescent, youngster, boy, schoolboy, lad, child, teenager, juvenile, minor, junior, young man, whippersnapper, fledgling
Origin Middle English: probably from strip (from the notion of ‘narrowness’, i.e. slimness) + -ling. |