Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - stripling
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(striplings) 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. (OLD-FASHIONED) ...a stripling of 20. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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n. a youth not yet fully grown. Etymology: ME, prob. f. STRIP(2) + -LING(1), in the sense of having a figure not yet filled out ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 14c., possibly from strip (n.) "long, narrow piece," on the notion of "one who is slender as a strip, whose figure is not yet filled out." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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