Shaveling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shaveling is a noun meaning (often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
Meaning
(often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
More Meanings
- A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.
Example Sentences
“Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”
Word Forms
- shavelings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shorling, shavee, shaver, shovelard, shalk, head-shrinker.
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