shaveling
Americannoun
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Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
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a young fellow; youngster.
noun
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derogatory a priest or clergyman with a shaven head
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a young fellow; youth
Etymology
Origin of shaveling
Example Sentences
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Will you be the shaveling to go confess or marry him?”
From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John Weyman
He would not use my nostrums— p. 225See, shaveling, here they are!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
The Baron was fairly satisfied, and muttered that if the bairn was fit only for a shaveling, it might be all right.
From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Sure am I, when she told her shaveling all His Magdalen's adventure, tears were shed, Forgiveness evangelically shown, 'Loose hair and lifted eye,'—as some one says.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
What if Count Hannibal were behind, were even now mounting the stairs, prepared to force her to a marriage before this shaveling?
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
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