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Stripling vs Whelp - What's the difference?

stripling | whelp |

As nouns the difference between stripling and whelp

is that stripling is (archaic) a youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad while whelp is a young offspring of a 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.

As a verb whelp is

(ambitransitive) to give birth.

stripling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
  • * 1749 , (John Cleland), (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)
    • Figure to yourself, Madam, a fair stripling , between eighteen and nineteen, with his head reclin'd on one of the sides of the chair, his hair in disorder'd curls, irregularly shading a face on which all the roseate bloom of youth and all the manly graces conspired to fix my eyes and heart. Even the languor and paleness of his face, in which the momentary triumph of the lily over the rose was owing to the excesses of the night, gave an inexpressible sweetness to the finest features imaginable
  • * 1879 : , Chapter 6
    • For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

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    whelp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young offspring of a 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.
  • (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
  • * Addison
    • That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
  • (obsolete) A kind of ship.
  • One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
  • A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).

    • Derived terms

    * fox whelp, fox-whelp, fox's whelp (foxling) * (Newfoundland) (l) * whelpling * wolf whelp, wolf-whelp, wolf's whelp

    See also

    * Guelf, Guelph * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To give birth.
    • The bitch whelped .
    The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.

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