shaveling

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shaveling

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From shave + -ling.

noun shavelings

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.”
A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.

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@misc{shaveling_2026,
  title = {shaveling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shaveling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}