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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Well, shaveling," said he, "thou hast said thy prayers, I perceive.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
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 Robert Hugh Benson
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 Rafael Sabatini
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
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
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