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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stripling/ˈstrɪplɪŋ/

▶noun archaic or humorous a young man.

– origin ME: prob. from strip2 (from the notion of ‘narrowness’, i.e. slimness) + -ling.

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