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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I don't care what a shaveling says: so I mean just to go and wish, and I won't sacrifice anything.
From The Gold Of Fairnilee by Lang, Andrew
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
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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von
"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
Clear the room, officer, and let not one shaveling monk put his nose within again, until I send for him.
From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh
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