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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He would not use my nostrums— p. 225See, shaveling, here they are!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard
Will you be the shaveling to go confess or marry him?”
From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Weyman, Stanley John
And they have not made a shaveling of you, after all.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Sabatini, Rafael
"You will not do it, you shaveling traitor?" screamed Pereira in a voice hoarse with rage.
From The People of the Mist by Haggard, Henry Rider
For I am no shaveling ignoramus, but a gentleman of birth; aye, and one who, though poor, is a near cousin of the marshal himself.
From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank
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