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Date: 1300-1400
Origin: Probably from STRIP2 + -ling; from the idea of being thin

stripling

 noun
     
strip‧ling [countable]
old-fashioned a boy who is almost a young man - sometimes used humorously about a man who is quite old [= youth]
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