# Shingled
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shingled/39741
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 4, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shingled/39741 "2000-11-04T22:48:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@thimblegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thimblegirl)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shingled/39741/1 "2000-11-04T22:48:41Z")
I’m reading E. F. Benson’s “Lucia In London” originally published in 1927 and have come upon this word(shingled). I cannot find a definition in any English dictionary or British dictionary of slang that makes sense to me. These are the two uses of the word that I found in the text:
“And when I go to practise in Lucia’s music-room you shall play my accompaniments. And shall I be shingled?”
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’ If you’ll give me three to one that I don’t know what you are going to say, I’ll take it,’ she said.
‘But you can’t know,’ said George.
‘Yes I do. You wouldn’t mind betting that Lucia will be shingled.’
‘Well, you are quick,’ said George admiringly.
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### Author:  [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shingled/39741/2 "2000-11-04T23:02:37Z")
To cut (hair) short and close to the head???
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shingled/39741/3 "2000-11-05T00:42:54Z")
Cold deafman to the rescue, [onelook.com](http://onelook.com):
v. tr. shin·gled, shin·gling, shin·gles.
```
1.To cover (a roof or building) with shingles.
2.To cut (hair) short and close to the head.
```
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### Author:  [@thimblegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thimblegirl)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shingled/39741/4 "2000-11-05T02:56:23Z")
Thanks to you both. Of course, it’s a haircut. It makes perfect sense now.