stripling

IPA: strˈɪpɫɪŋ

(archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .
(horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.
A surname.

Examples of "stripling" in Sentences

I wasn't exactly what you'd call a stripling of a girl.
Thus then I should meet this titled stripling — the son of my father’s friend.
Thus then I should meet this titled stripling -- the son of my father's friend.
In short, he was young, cute, small and completely non-threatening – the kind of stripling I found irresistibly attractive when, at the age of twenty-four, I finally plucked up the courage to post a profile on a dating website and Go Out With A Boy.
Froude says of him, “The stripling was the same person as the statesman at seventy, with this difference only, that the affectation which was natural in the boy was itself affected in the matured politician, whom it served well for a mask, or as a suit of impenetrable armor.”
Froude says of him, "The stripling was the same person as the statesman at seventy, with this difference only, that the affectation which was natural in the boy was itself affected in the matured politician, whom it served well for a mask, or as a suit of impenetrable armor."