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Definition von striplings im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- plural of stripling
- stripling
- A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad
For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.
- stripling
- a mere youth
- stripling
- {n} a youth, young or very weak man
- stripling
- People sometimes refer to a young man as a stripling when they want to indicate in a slightly humorous way that although he is no longer a boy, he is not yet really a man. a stripling of
- stripling
- A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity (syn: adolescent, teenager)
- stripling
- a boy who is almost a young man - sometimes used humorously about a man who is quite old = youth (Probably from STRIP + -ling; from the idea of being thin)
- stripling
- {i} youth, young man
- stripling
- a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity