shaveling









shaveling


noun

  1. Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
  2. a young fellow; youngster.

noun archaic

  1. derogatory a priest or clergyman with a shaven head
  2. a young fellow; youth

n.contemptuous term for a friar, literally “shaven person,” 1520s, from shave + -ling. “Very common in 16th and 17th c.” [OED]. Also as an adjective (1570s).

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