shaveling
Americannoun
-
Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
-
a young fellow; youngster.
noun
-
derogatory a priest or clergyman with a shaven head
-
a young fellow; youth
Etymology
Origin of shaveling
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A fig for you and your shaveling Cardinal!'
From Under the Red Robe by Stanley John Weyman
He would not use my nostrums— p. 225See, shaveling, here they are!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
We will take you on horseback, and when we have caught the shaveling we will make merry together out of the ducat.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Ay, so it is: if she have any ill, Through the lewd shaveling will her shame be wrought.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
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
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
