EGAVE

stripling

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}.
  2. noun A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

Similar words

teenager adolescent lad sapling sprig younglet manling man child youngman colt

Often followed by

of in who and with to was had is

Word family

striplings

Save “stripling” to learn later