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stripling

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Noun — A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .

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From Middle English stripling (“an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child”) [and other forms], possibly from strepen (“to remove the clothes of, undress, strip; to peel off; to skin (an animal); to remove; to take something away from someone; to plunder, rob”) (connoting something that is stripped...

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