English Explanatory Dictionary

shaveling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

shaveling shavelings

Etymology

From shave + -ling.

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