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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Let me endure the extremity of your anger, my lord," said Giles, "if this be not a real shaveling.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
"You are a man of sinew yourself, monk, and methinks that you would have made a better soldier than a shaveling."
From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Ralph Peacock
He would not use my nostrums— p. 225See, shaveling, here they are!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
"You will not do it, you shaveling traitor?" screamed Pereira in a voice hoarse with rage.
From The People of the Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
Mulholland, in which the first element means tonsured servant, shaveling, and the second is the name of a saint.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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