shaveling

English edit

From shave +‎ -ling.

shaveling (plural shavelings)

(often derogatory) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 48:
  “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.”
A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.

someone with their head shaved

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967