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shaveling
[sheyv-ling]
noun
Older Use: Disparaging.a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
a young fellow; youngster.
shaveling
/ ˈʃɪɪŋ /
noun
derogatorya priest or clergyman with a shaven head
a young fellow; youth
Word History and Origins
Origin of shaveling1
Example Sentences
"That dull shaveling loves us not, fair Ella," said Ned Dyram.
Rouse up the little shaveling, will you?
if Count Hannibal were behind, were even now mounting the stairs, prepared to force her to a marriage before this shaveling?
The Pope sent them? asked Lord Grey de Wilton, and declared himself surprised, the bitter old enthusiast, that gentlemen should undertake a commission from "a detestable shaveling the right antichrist and patron of the doctrine of devils."
We will take you on horseback, and when we have caught the shaveling we will make merry together out of the ducat.
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