shaveling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
shaveling (plural shavelings)
- (often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 48:
- “Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”
- A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.
Translations[edit]
someone with their head shaved
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References[edit]
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967