stripling
nounEtymology
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 and thin, and yet to reach its full size) + -ling (suffix forming diminutives). Strepen is derived from Old English *strēpan (Anglian), *strīepan, *strīpan, *strȳpan (West Saxon), from Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, from Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), from *streupaną (“to touch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-, *sterw-, *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’). The English word is analysable as strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling.
- derived from *strew-✻
- inherited from *straupijan✻
- inherited from *strēpan✻
Definitions
A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood
A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .
- And the king ſaid, Enquire thou whoſe ſonne the ſtripling is.
- And now, I suppose, my Striplings are formally clad, and togated, newly arrived at the Vniversities
- Count Edmund—but he was indeed a stripling, A very lad
A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.
- For there upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediæval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.
A surname.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA