单词 | shaveling |
释义 | shavelingn.adj. A. n. 1. a. A contemptuous epithet for a tonsured ecclesiastic. (Very common in 16th and 17th centuries.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > [noun] > one who is tonsured shaveling1529 pilpate1530 shorling?1548 1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader lii. sig. Mviii The Pope sayeth..I excommunicate all them that aske eny toll or trybute of me and my shavelinges. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 385 Monkis and freiris witht all the rest of scawelingis. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Tim. v. 1) Ierk him not as..the Bishops and their shavelings did Henry the 2. of England, till the bloud followed. 1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed ii. iii Cleave yon bald-pated shaveling to the chine! 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. iii. 72 And that too, perjured prelate—and that, turncoat shaveling! 1911 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 492 Counting up the number of shavelings still in France. b. gen. A person with shaven head. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [noun] > with short hair shorling?1548 shaveling1621 crop1689 skinhead1969 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 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. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 1854 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce xiv The very youngest of the shavelings who aspire to dandyism. 1894 S. J. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > [adjective] > tonsured crowneda1500 shaveling1574 tonsured1706 1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches sig. Dv (margin) The shaueling generation. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 281 Wheresoever that shavelyng marke of the Romish Prelate is emprinted. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 148 But they were only honest canons with wives at home, and not shaveling monks. 2. Shaven, having the hair cut off. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > cut or shaved nottOE shavenc1330 rounded?a1439 clipped1483 poll-shorn1556 notched1597 nott-pated1598 well-shaved1600 shaveling1607 nott-headed1612 cropped-eared1641 round-headed1641 polled1653 crop-eared1680 lop-eared1798 shaved1837 crop-headed1842 county-cropped1849 cropped1856 colled1877 crop-haired1879 prison-cropped1882 bob-haired1923 bobbed-haired1928 bobbed-hair1953 slap-headed1994 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 283 Those shaueling and short haired Stallions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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