changeling

[change·ling]

A changeling is a child who is suspected to not be a couple’s real child. As the myth goes, a changeling was substituted by fairies.

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One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.

Noun
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy

Noun
a person of subnormal intelligence


n.
One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.

n.
A simpleton; an idiot.

n.
One apt to change; a waverer.

a.
Taken or left in place of another; changed.

a.
Given to change; inconstant.


Changeling

Change"ling, n. [Change + -ling.] 1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft.
The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.
2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay.
Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.
Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden. 3. One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle changelings." Shak.

Changeling

Change"ling, a. 1. Taken or left in place of another; changed. "A little changeling boy." Shak. 2. Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.]
Some are so studiously changeling.

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.

Taken or left in place of another; changed.

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