stripling
noun
[ ˈstrɪplɪŋ ]
• a young man.
• "he's a mere stripling"
Similar:
youth,
adolescent,
youngster,
boy,
schoolboy,
lad,
child,
teenager,
juvenile,
minor,
junior,
young man,
whippersnapper,
fledgling,
laddie,
bairn,
pickney,
kid,
young 'un,
nipper,
shaver,
tot,
hobbledehoy,
brat,
urchin,
guttersnipe,
Origin:
Middle English: probably from strip2 (from the notion of ‘narrowness’, i.e. slimness) + -ling.
