stripling in English

IPA: /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stripling.wav

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Rhymes: -ɪplɪŋ 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 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*strew-}}, {{inh|en|enm|stripling|t=an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child}} Middle English stripling (“an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child”), {{nb...|strepelynge, stripeling, striplyng, strippelinge, stryplynge|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{m|enm|strepen|t=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}} 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”), {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{m|enm|-ling|pos=suffix forming diminutives}} -ling (suffix forming diminutives), {{m|enm||Strepen}} Strepen, {{inh|en|ang|*strēpan}} Old English *strēpan, {{qualifier|Anglian}} (Anglian), {{m|ang|*strīepan}} *strīepan, {{m|ang|*strīpan}} *strīpan, {{m|ang|*strȳpan}} *strȳpan, {{qualifier|West Saxon}} (West Saxon), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*straupijan}} Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, {{sup|1}} ¹, {{sup|1}} ¹, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*straupijaną|t=to strip; to pluck; to wipe}} Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), {{m|gem-pro|*streupaną|t=to touch}} *streupaną (“to touch”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*strew-}} Proto-Indo-European *strew-, {{m|ine-pro|*sterw-}} *sterw-, {{m|ine-pro|*ster-|t=a strip; a streak; a beam, ray}} *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”), {{glossary|causative}} causative, {{glossary|strong verb}} strong verb, {{m|gem-pro|*-janą|pos=suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’}} *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’), {{suffix|en|strip|ling|id2=diminutive|t1=long, narrow piece}} strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} stripling (plural striplings)

Inflected forms

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            "Biology",
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        },
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          "ref": "1837, Venator [pseudonym; John Cooper], “Prefatory Remarks”, in The Warwickshire Hunt, from 1795 to 1836; […], London: Henry Harris, […]; Warwick, Warwickshire: J. Cooper, […], →OCLC, page vi",
          "text": "This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "Altman in particular passed what would become known at YC as the young founders’ test: Can this stripling manage adults?",
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        [
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        "(archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. ."
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          "word": "shaveling"
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            "rare"
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          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "մանուկ"
        },
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          "roman": "patani",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "պատանի"
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          "word": "տղայ"
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          "roman": "junoša",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "mladež",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "младеж"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "kloppi"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "č̣abuḳi",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "ჭაბუკი"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Jüngling"
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        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "amoústakos",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "αμούστακος"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gas"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "catulaster"
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          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "beardlēas"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "wyrostek"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "parenʹ",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "word": "парень"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "òganach"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "proitseach"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "glaslanc"
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          "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
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          "word": "llencyn"
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        "A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off."
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        "(horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off."
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "*strȳpan",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "West Saxon"
      },
      "expansion": "(West Saxon)",
      "name": "qualifier"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*straupijan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *straupijan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "¹",
      "name": "sup"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "¹",
      "name": "sup"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*straupijaną",
        "t": "to strip; to pluck; to wipe"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*streupaną",
        "t": "to touch"
      },
      "expansion": "*streupaną (“to touch”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*strew-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *strew-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*sterw-"
      },
      "expansion": "*sterw-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*ster-",
        "t": "a strip; a streak; a beam, ray"
      },
      "expansion": "*ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "causative"
      },
      "expansion": "causative",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strong verb"
      },
      "expansion": "strong verb",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*-janą",
        "pos": "suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’"
      },
      "expansion": "*-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "strip",
        "3": "ling",
        "id2": "diminutive",
        "t1": "long, narrow piece"
      },
      "expansion": "strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "striplings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stripling (plural striplings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "strip‧ling"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English humorous terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1634, Miles Sandys, Prudence",
          "text": "And now, I suppose, my Striplings are formally clad, and togated, newly arrived at the Vniversities",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, Venator [pseudonym; John Cooper], “Prefatory Remarks”, in The Warwickshire Hunt, from 1795 to 1836; […], London: Henry Harris, […]; Warwick, Warwickshire: J. Cooper, […], →OCLC, page vi",
          "text": "This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "Altman in particular passed what would become known at YC as the young founders’ test: Can this stripling manage adults?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. ."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "man",
          "man#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "adolescence",
          "adolescence"
        ],
        [
          "passing",
          "pass#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "boyhood",
          "boyhood"
        ],
        [
          "manhood",
          "manhood"
        ],
        [
          "lad",
          "lad"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. ."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sapling"
        },
        {
          "word": "shaveling"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "springald"
        },
        {
          "word": "boy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "archaic",
        "attributive",
        "humorous",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Horticulture"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "seedling",
          "seedling"
        ],
        [
          "leaves",
          "leaf#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "stripped off",
          "strip off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪplɪŋ"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "manuk",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "մանուկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "patani",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "պատանի"
    },
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "tłay",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "տղայ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "junoša",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "юноша"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mladež",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "младеж"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "kloppi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "č̣abuḳi",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "ჭაბუკი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Jüngling"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amoústakos",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αμούστακος"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gas"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "catulaster"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "beardlēas"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wyrostek"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "parenʹ",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "парень"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "òganach"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proitseach"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "glaslanc"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "llencyn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stripling"
}

"stripling" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms