Meaning

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

  2. A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.

Origin

From shave + -ling.

From shave + -ling.

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Forms

plural: shavelings
Singularshaveling
Pluralshavelings

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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