stripling
3 synonyms and 1 antonym for stripling, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (old-fashioned) A teenage boy who is not yet fully grown into a man.
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Etymology
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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