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Webster 1913 Edition


Stripling

Strip′ling

,
Noun.
[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.
Inquire thou whose son the
stripling
is.
1 Sam. xvii. 56.

Webster 1828 Edition


Stripling

STRIPLING

,
Noun.
[from strip, stripe; primarily a tall slender youth, one that shoots up suddenly.] A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
And the king said, inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Samuel 18.

Definition 2024


stripling

stripling

English

Noun

stripling (plural striplings)

  1. (archaic) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
      Figure to yourself, Madam, a fair stripling, between eighteen and nineteen, with his head reclin'd on one of the sides of the chair, his hair in disorder'd curls, irregularly shading a face on which all the roseate bloom of youth and all the manly graces conspired to fix my eyes and heart. Even the languor and paleness of his face, in which the momentary triumph of the lily over the rose was owing to the excesses of the night, gave an inexpressible sweetness to the finest features imaginable
    • 1879: Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Chapter 6
      For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

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References

  • stripling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913