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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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