| 单词 | stripling |
| 释义 | stripling (once / 4170 pages) n You can use the old-fashioned noun stripling to talk about a teenager, though few people these days will know what you're talking about. Like many old words in English, the -ling in this one clues you up that it's a smaller version of the real thing. Exactly how the strip part applies is lost in the mists of time, but it may have to do with being thin as a strip from lacking the muscular development of full manhood: the word stripling is a somewhat poetic epithet for a youth. WORD FAMILYstripling: striplings USAGE EXAMPLES“Honored to be one of the last players ever to be dressed up as a woman,” added Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling. Washington Times(Dec 13, 2016) The format will be round-robin, and the hope is to have prize money in the neighborhood of $1.5 million—a fortune for tennis striplings. The New Yorker(Nov 16, 2016) The closest the Dodgers came to pitching a no-hitter occurred when Ross Stripling allowed the San Francisco Giants no hits for 7 1/3 innings. Los Angeles Times(Oct 23, 2016) n a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity Syn|Hypo|Hyper adolescent, teen, teenager chebab a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis moda British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers pachucoa Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes punk, punk rockera teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture rockera teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles young buck, young mana teenager or a young adult male juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed |
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