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shaveling
[ sheyv-ling ]
noun
- Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- a young fellow; youngster.
shaveling
/ ˈʃ±ðɪ±¹±ôɪŋ /
noun
- derogatory.a priest or clergyman with a shaven head
- a young fellow; youth
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of shaveling1
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"That dull shaveling loves us not, fair Ella," said Ned Dyram.
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Rouse up the little shaveling, will you?
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What if Count Hannibal were behind, were even now mounting the stairs, prepared to force her to a marriage before this shaveling?
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The Pope sent them? asked Lord Grey de Wilton, and declared himself surprised, the bitter old enthusiast, that gentlemen should undertake a commission from "a detestable shaveling the right antichrist and patron of the doctrine of devils."
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We will take you on horseback, and when we have caught the shaveling we will make merry together out of the ducat.
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