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shaveling, n. (and a.)|ˈʃeɪvlɪŋ|
Forms: see shave v.; also Sc. 6 scheavelyng, schavel(l)ing, schevel-, schaifl-, schewell-, sc(h)awe-, 7 shaweling, shavelling.
[f. shave v. + -ling1.]
A. n.
1. A contemptuous epithet for a tonsured ecclesiastic. (Very common in 16th and 17th c.)
1529Frith Antithesis 96 The Pope sayeth..I excommunicate all them that aske eny toll or trybute of me and my shavelinges. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 385 Monkis and freiris witht all the rest of scawelingis. 1647Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. v. 1 Ierk him not as..the Bishops and their shavelings did Henry the 2. of England, till the bloud followed. 1824Byron Def. Transf. ii. iii, Cleave yon bald-pated shaveling to the chine! 1884Tennyson Becket i. iii, And that too, perjured prelate—and that, turncoat shaveling! 1911Contemp. Rev. Apr. 492 Counting up the number of shavelings still in France.
b. gen. A person with shaven head. rare.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ iii. 532 Lycurgus would haue the Spartans weare their hair long..: for slaues were shauelings for the most part.
2. A youth, young ‘shaver’. rare.
1854G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce xiv, The very youngest of the shavelings who aspire to dandyism. 1894S. Weyman Man in Black viii, ‘He is a runaway!’ the voice said... ‘Rouse up the little shaveling, will you?’
B. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a tonsured ecclesiastic.
1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1581) 24 margin, The shauelyng generation. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 281 Wheresoever that shavelyng marke of the Romish Prelate is emprinted. 1865Kingsley Herew. iv, But they were only honest canons with wives at home, and not shaveling monks.
2. Shaven, having the hair cut off.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 283 Those shaueling and short haired Stallions. |