What's the difference between boyhood and stripling?
Boyhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(2) But asked whether his decision to leave his boyhood club Spurs to join bitter rivals Arsenal on a free transfer in 2001 could affect his popularity in north London, the 40-year-old said: “If we keep thinking about football, we’re not going to do anything.
(3) The smile, so noticeably absent during a miserable final season at his boyhood club, was back.
(4) The versatile defender is considering the move only four months after signing a new three-year contract with his boyhood club.
(5) However, what should have been a dream for the boyhood Evertonian began to turn sour.
(6) Richards, a boyhood Arsenal fan, would be a contender to replace Sagna if the 31-year-old France international leaves north London.
(7) "Poised at the awkward intersection of real life and fiction, and of boyhood and manhood, the narrator's journal and his first stories are 'full of young men with nothing much to do' and bleed into one another," considered Lucy Daniel in the Daily Telegraph.
(8) After initiation, a young man must be bought a suit and cap and must throw away his entire wardrobe, including underwear, shoes, school uniform and school bag from his boyhood.
(9) In mitigation the 61-year-old boyhood Sunderland fan trimmed back an overblown squad he inherited from Steve Bruce but he made some perplexing fringe additions including Louis Saha and James McFadden, both recently released.
(10) Reinforcing boyhood for our child began to lead to distress, upset and anxiety.
(11) 8 variables captured 28% of the explained variance in upward social mobility: IQ, mother's education, mother's occupation, boyhood ego strength, and four ego defense mechanisms--intellectualization, dissociation, sublimation, and anticipation.
(12) The first of two volumes, it takes us from boyhood to the publication of his landmark bestseller, The Selfish Gene .
(13) Although it is not yet clear what boyhood behaviors indicate an adult homosexual outcome, femininity is one reliable marker.
(14) Three stainless steel tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike’s boyhood home were part of Gehry’s original design.
(15) "If you'd told me as a young boy I would have played for and won trophies with my boyhood club Manchester United , proudly captained and played for my country over 100 times and lined up for some of the biggest clubs in the world, I would have told you it was a fantasy," he said.
(16) Moreno, the former Sevilla left-back and boyhood Sevilla fan, made a hash of clearing a crossfield ball and headed straight to Ferreira.
(17) That effort was glanced wide but the boyhood Evertonian made no mistake with a superb finish seconds later.
(18) Boyhood (11 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Something of a minor miracle.
(19) Tibbets' thoughts, he confided in his autobiography, had turned to his "courageous red-haired mother, whose quiet confidence had been a source of strength to me since boyhood".
(20) After having abandoned his boyhood delusions of professional footballing, Oliver went to Cambridge where he neglected his English degree to write and perform in the Footlights comedy troupe with his friend Richard Ayoade.
Stripling
Definition:
(n.) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this stripling will have to pull off some moves niftier than one of Goodman's dancing trainees to avoid being stomped on by bigger rivals who need all the sales they can find.
(2) The vanquished Arsenal were not at full strength but even their captain, William Gallas, who was in the line-up, was as overwhelmed as any stripling.