shaveling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk. derogatory,often
    — “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.

词形变化

shavelings plural

词源

Etymology tree
English shave
English -ling
English shaveling
From shave + -ling.
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