stripling(n = noun.person) adolescent, teen, teenager - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity;
is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has particulars: chebab, mod, pachuco, punk, punk rocker, rocker, young buck, young man

   A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. [1913 Webster]
"Inquire thou whose son the stripling is." [1913 Webster]

stripling, n. a youth not yet fully grown.

Etymology:
ME, prob. f. STRIP(2) + -LING(1), in the sense of having a figure not yet filled out

N  infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.