Stripling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stripling \Strip"ling\, 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.
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           Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. --1 Sam. xvii.
                                                    56.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stripling
       n : a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: {adolescent},
            {teenager}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, youth