shaveling

Definition

Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.

Etymology

From shave + -ling.

Example Sentences

• "“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.”"