changeling

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

2. n. A simpleton; an idiot. Source: opted

3. n. One apt to change; a waverer. Source: opted

4. a. Taken or left in place of another; changed. Source: opted

5. a. Given to change; inconstant. Source: opted

6. n. a person of subnormal intelligence Source: wordnet

7. n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy Source: wordnet

8. 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. 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. Source: webster

9. n:100 n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy Source: ecdict

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