stripling
/ˈstrɪplɪŋ/
noun
- A young man who is not yet fully grown; a youth or adolescent boy.
- He was just a stripling when he first joined the navy, barely sixteen years old.
- The stripling helped his father carry firewood but struggled with the heaviest logs.
- In the village, the striplings gathered every evening to play soccer in the dusty square.
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