Definition of "shaveling" []

• Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; often used as a derogatory comment directed at priests or monks. (noun)
• A shaver, stripling, young man physically ripe enough to shave. (noun)

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• "And by their slaughter rid the earth of every shaveling wight."
• "“Our chaplain attempted to teach me to write,” he said, “but all my letters were formed like spear-heads and sword-blades, and so the old shaveling gave up the task.”"
• "Gargantua, being come, considered the countenance of the monk, and in what posture he hanged; wherefore he said to Eudemon, You were mistaken in comparing him to Absalom; for Absalom hung by his hair, but this shaveling monk hangeth by the ears."