shaveling

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9

Definition of shaveling

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (derogatory, often)Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
    ““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.””
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noun

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

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Etymology

From shave + -ling.

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8-letter words

7 words

7-letter words

21 words

6-letter words

72 words

5-letter words

99 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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