[
UK
/stɹˈɪplɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈstɹɪpɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹɪpɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
How To Use stripling In A Sentence
- I saw the thing clearly, hanging about the stripling 's neck. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- Yes, he remembered picking up Abasio as a stripling youth at a battery and weapons warehouse. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- Surely, though, there could be no such problem with filming a stripling of a novel, published a mere five years ago?
- With some help from Mario whom even as a stripling I found pretty oleaginous, the French menu was interpreted.
- It really gave one quite a shock to realise _how_ grown-up the old companions had become even the brothers Harry and Russell were transformed into tall striplings who bought newspapers on their own account, and preferred, actually _preferred_, to be clean rather than dirty! A College Girl
- He liked the way that even as a stripling he could generate tremendous clubhead speed. Times, Sunday Times
- The adjudge is a key contestant in the utilization of stripling Pop and free early recordings by start Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World and Yellowcard. Punk Reviews
- Fast forward almost 21 years, to last Monday, when the Celtic under-21 team took on Kilmarnock's striplings.
- As he stood at the door, a tall young stripling, dressed in what they call a smock frock, with a pitchfork in his hand, came up and, taking his station a little on one side, began to view him from head to foot, scratching his head and grinning. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
- ‘I did not know him as a stripling, travelling around Scotland in the back of a bus,’ she says, with a smile.