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Stripling

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adolescentnounA person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
teenagernounA person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).

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teenagernounA person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
adolescentnounA person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
ladnounA boy or young man.
saplingnounA young tree, larger than a seedling.
sprignounA small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
youngletnoun(archaic) A young person or animal.
manlingnoun(literary) A young man; a boy.
man childnoun(informal, chiefly derogatory) An adult male who is childish or immature.
youngmannoun(dated, gay slang) A younger lover or sexual partner.
coltnounA young male horse.
baby boynounA very young male human being, from birth to a couple of years old.
man-childnounAlternative spelling of man child. [(informal, chiefly derogatory) An adult male who is childish or immature.]
little boynounThe nuclear bomb dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
masterlingnounA young, little, or petty master; a lordling.
whelpnounA young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
swainlingnoun(archaic) A little or young swain.
shavelingnoun(often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
younkernoun(archaic) A young man; a lad, youngster.
ingenunoun(rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, naive, wholesome boy or young man.
bantlingnoun(archaic, UK dialectal) An infant or young child.

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