3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --Boyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --Spenser.
The changeling [a substituted writing] never known
--Shak.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
changeling
n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: {idiot}, {imbecile},
{cretin}, {moron}, {half-wit}, {retard}]
2: a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
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