"stripling" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stripling.wav Forms: striplings [plural]
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], {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{inh|en|ang|*strēpan}} Old English *strēpan, {{qualifier|Anglian}} (Anglian), {{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”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*strew-}} Proto-Indo-European *strew-, {{glossary|causative}} causative, {{glossary|strong verb}} strong verb, {{suffix|en|strip|ling|id2=diminutive|t1=long, narrow piece}} strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} stripling (plural striplings)
  1. (archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. . Tags: also, archaic, attributive, humorous, sometimes Categories (topical): Male people Synonyms: sapling, shaveling, springald [archaic, rare], boy Translations (youth (young man) in the state of adolescence): юноша (junoša) [masculine] (Bulgarian), младеж (mladež) [masculine] (Bulgarian), kloppi (Finnish), jouvenceau [masculine] (French), ჭაბუკი (č̣abuḳi) (Georgian), Jüngling [masculine] (German), αμούστακος (amoústakos) [masculine] (Greek), gas [masculine] (Irish), catulaster (Latin), մանուկ (manuk) (Old Armenian), պատանի (patani) (Old Armenian), տղայ (tłay) (Old Armenian), beardlēas (Old English), wyrostek [masculine] (Polish), парень (parenʹ) (Russian), òganach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), proitseach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), glaslanc [masculine] (Welsh), llencyn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-stripling-en-noun-3-Rg6PZ5 Disambiguation of Male people: 89 11 Categories (other): Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'youth (young man) in the state of adolescence': 99 1
  2. (horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off. Categories (topical): Horticulture
    Sense id: en-stripling-en-noun-2U9dKtdC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling (diminutive), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Old Armenian translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ling (diminutive): 30 70 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 35 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 76 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Old Armenian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 26 74 Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "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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          "text": "A berth was reserved for me by my friends in the same cabin as that of Sjt. Tryambakrai Mazmudar, the Junagadh vakil. They also commended me to him. He was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world. Sjt. Mazmudar told my friends not to worry about me.",
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:56, column 1:",
          "text": "And the king ſaid, Enquire thou whoſe ſonne the ſtripling is.",
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          "ref": "1634, Miles Sandys, Prudence:",
          "text": "And now, I suppose, my Striplings are formally clad, and togated, newly arrived at the Vniversities",
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          "english": "Fanny Hill",
          "ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 92:",
          "text": "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.",
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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": "1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “Outcaste”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC, part I, page 104:",
          "text": "A berth was reserved for me by my friends in the same cabin as that of Sjt. Tryambakrai Mazmudar, the Junagadh vakil. They also commended me to him. He was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world. Sjt. Mazmudar told my friends not to worry about me.",
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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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          "ref": "1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[Our Lady of the Snows.] Father Apollinaris.”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 91:",
          "text": "For there upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediæval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.",
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    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "manuk",
      "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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      "roman": "tłay",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "տղայ"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "junoša",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "юноша"
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      "code": "bg",
      "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"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jouvenceau"
    },
    {
      "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"
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      "word": "gas"
    },
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      "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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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "wyrostek"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "parenʹ",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "word": "парень"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "òganach"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "youth (young man) in the state of adolescence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "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": [
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      "word": "llencyn"
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}

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