Meaning of shaveling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
   derogatory, often
2. A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.

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Examples

““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.””

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