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Shaveling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk. derogatory, often

    "“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.”"

  2. 2
    A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.

Etymology

From shave + -ling.

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