shavelings

Noun

shaveling (plural shavelings)

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