stripling
stri pling
- n a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
- That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper.
- Its oldest dancer is a stripling of 30 (compared with 40 at the New York City Ballet).
- In a few years, the stripling Hamlet has followed Rossetti's advice to study painting.