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shaveling en · NOUN

Etymology

From shave + -ling.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, often) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
   • “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.” 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 48:
2. A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.

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Translations (1)

fi pulipää (someone with their head shaved)