different between stripling vs younker

English

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 *str?pan (Anglian), *str?epan, *str?pan, *str?pan (West Saxon), from Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, from Proto-Germanic *straupijan? (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), from *streupan? (“to touch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-, *sterw-, *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)) + *-jan? (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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?st??pl??/
• Hyphenation: strip?ling

Noun

stripling (plural striplings)

1. (archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. [from 14th c.].

   Synonyms: sapling, shaveling, (archaic, rare) springald; see also Thesaurus:boy
2. (horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

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References

Further reading

• adolescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stripling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stripling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stripling”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• spirtling, split-ring, triplings

English

Alternative forms

• yonker (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong (“young”) + here (“lord”). Compare junker.

Noun

younker (plural younkers)

1. a young man; a lad, youngster
2. (obsolete) a young gentleman or knight
3. (obsolete) a novice; a simpleton; a dupe
4. junker

References

• younker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “younker”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Yukoner