Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stripling

/ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English

Syllables
strip-ling
IPA
/ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .

Dated; Humorous

noun

A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

name

A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English stripling (“an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child”) [and other forms], possibly from strepen (“to remove the clothes of, undress, strip; to peel off; to skin (an animal); to remove; to take something away from someone; to plunder, rob”) (connoting something that is stripped and thin, and yet to reach its full size) + -ling (suffix forming diminutives). Strepen is derived from Old English *strēpan (Anglian), *strīepan, *strīpan, *strȳpan (West Saxon), from Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, from Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), from *streupaną (“to touch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-, *sterw-, *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’). The English word is analysable as strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling.

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Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/
  • British English: /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/

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Questions

How do you pronounce stripling?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/.
What does stripling mean?
A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .
Where does stripling come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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