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changeling
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Changeling
(gcide) | 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.
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Such, men do changelings call, so changed by
fairies' theft. --Spenser.
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The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.
--Shak.
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2. A simpleton; an idiot. --Macaulay.
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Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut
out.
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Wildly we roam in discontent about. --Dryden.
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3. One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle changelings."
--Shak.
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Changeling
(gcide) | Changeling \Change"ling\, a.
1. Taken or left in place of another; changed. "A little
changeling boy." --Shak.
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2. Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.]
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Some are so studiously changeling. --Boyle.
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changeling
(wn) | changeling
n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot,
imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit,
retard]
2: a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy |
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