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stripling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stripling has 1 sense
- stripling(n = noun.person) adolescent, teen, teenager - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity; Array is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has particulars: chebab, mod, pachuco, punk, punk rocker, rocker, young buck, young man
CIDE DICTIONARY
stripling, n. [Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.].
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. [1913 Webster]
"Inquire thou whose son the stripling is."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
stripling, n. a youth not yet fully grown.
Etymology
ME, prob. f. STRIP(2) + -LING(1), in the sense of having a figure not yet filled out
THESAURUS
stripling
Young Turk, adolescent, arriviste, baby, boy, bright young man, comer, fledgling, hobbledehoy, hopeful, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, lad, laddie, minor, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, pubescent, rising generation, sapling, schoolboy, slip, son, sprig, tad, teenager, teener, teenybopper, upstart, young hopeful, young man, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youthROGET THESAURUS
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Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
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