English
Noun
en-noun
- A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
#* 1879: w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Chapter 6
#*: For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.
- A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity (syn: adolescent, teenager).
References
R:Webster 1913
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