Crossword clues for stripling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stripling \Strip"ling\, n. [Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.] A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
--1 Sam. xvii.
56.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a youth," late 14c., of uncertain origin, possibly from strip (n.1) "long, narrow piece," on the notion of "one who is slender as a strip, whose figure is not yet filled out" + -ling.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
WordNet
n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, teenager]
Wikipedia
Stripling may refer to:
Usage examples of "stripling".
Like as not, now, some toe-dancing stripling of a retiarius will entangle me in his net this very afternoon, and no mercy signal has been or will be given this day.
The Duc de Bercy to be harangued to his duty, scathed, measured, disapproved, and counselled, by a stripling Vaufontaine--it was monstrous.
It is no fault of yours if the stripling of Eton is not, at eighteen, well initiated into all the mysteries of life, excepting only the, to him, mysterious volumes of the classics.
So appealing to Greff were striplings in the snow that he often romped with them before or after his bath, helped them with their reciprocal rubdowns, or allowed the entire horde to rub him down.
The elder obviously hated having codes quoted to her by a statusless stripling.
How those peach-skinned girls must have screamed and the downy striplings by them felt their dimpled knees knock together, as the mad flood of barbarians came pouring over from the forest, and long ago stormed their citadels like a stream of red lava, as deadly, as irresistible, as remorseless!
With this stripling, all whose art of love was the action of it, I could, without check of awe or restraint, give a loose to joy, and execute every scheme of dalliance my fond fancy might put me on, in which he was, in every sense, a most exquisite companion.
It won't help his case much, either, that when he was a mere stripling he lay face down on a Japanese hand grenade, and has been in and out of laughing academies ever since.
Three hardened ranchmen were being set upon by a trio of striplings from the city, and were being beaten.
Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
Ay, I was naught but a stripling then, and the mare the tricksiest piece—well, to think you’d remember!