noun

• A young man.

  ‘he's a mere stripling’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Surely, though, there could be no such problem with filming a stripling of a novel, published a mere five years ago?’
  • ‘Long ago, when Al was a mere stripling of 83, the Players Club gave him a testimonial.’
  • ‘The police officer, a mere stripling of 35, was called to a nursing home where the woman was visiting a friend.’
  • ‘Fast forward almost 21 years, to last Monday, when the Celtic under-21 team took on Kilmarnock's striplings.’
  • ‘‘I did not know him as a stripling, travelling around Scotland in the back of a bus,’ she says, with a smile.’

  Synonyms

  youth, adolescent, youngster, boy, schoolboy, lad, child, teenager, juvenile, minor, junior, young man, whippersnapper, fledgling

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