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9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
originFrom 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).…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- spirting 11
- striping 11
- tripling 11
- lisping 10
- pilings 10
- prising 10
- sliping 10
- spiling 10
- spiring 10
- spiting 10
- piling 9
- riping 9