stripling
noun
1 stripling
A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.
synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager.
Roget 129:
infant,
babe,
baby,
babe in arms;
nurseling,
suckling,
yearling,
weanling;
papoose,
bambino;
kid;
vagitus.
child,
bairn [Scot.],
little one,
brat,
chit,
pickaninny,
urchin;
bantling,
bratling†;
elf.
youth,
boy,
lad,
stripling,
youngster,
youngun,
younker†,
callant†,
whipster†,
whippersnapper,
whiffet [U.S.],
schoolboy,
hobbledehoy,
hopeful,
cadet,
minor,
master.
scion;
sap,
seedling;
tendril,
olive branch,
nestling,
chicken,
larva,
chrysalis,
tadpole,
whelp,
cub,
pullet,
fry,
callow;
codlin, codling;
foetus,
calf,
colt,
pup,
foal,
kitten;
lamb,
lambkin†;
aurelia†,
caterpillar,
cocoon,
nymph,
nympha†,
orphan,
pupa,
staddle†.
girl;
lass,
lassie;
wench,
miss,
damsel,
demoiselle;
maid,
maiden;
virgin;
hoyden.
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Dutch: jongeling, jongvolwassene, adolescent, halfwas, puber, teenager, tiener
Polish: kilkunastolatek, nastolatek
Moby thesaurus: Young Turk, adolescent, arriviste, baby, boy, bright young man, comer, fledgling, hobbledehoy, hopeful, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, lad, laddie, minor, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, pubescent, rising generation, sapling, schoolboy, slip, son, sprig, tad, teenager, teener, teenybopper, upstart, young hopeful, young man, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth ... show more.
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