shaveling
English
noun
Definitions
- (often) Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman; a priest or monk.
- A shaver, stripling, young man physically mature enough to shave.
Etymology
Suffix from English shave.
Origin
English
shave
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aftershave English
- drawshave English
- inshave English
- preshave English
- reshave English
- shave English
- shaveable English
- shavee English
- shavegrass English
- shavehook English
- shaveless English
- shaver English
- shavest English
- shavetail English
- shaveth English
- spokeshave English
- shaven Middle English
- siafio Welsh
- sev Tok Pisin
- shefa Swati
- tjhefa South Ndebele