Meaning of Stripling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .
   also, attributive, dated, humorous, sometimes
3. A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

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Examples

“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”

“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.”

Fanny Hill

“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.”

“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.”

“Altman in particular passed what would become known at YC as the young founders’ test: Can this stripling manage adults?”

“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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