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changeling

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change·ling  (chnjlng)
n.
1. A child secretly exchanged for another.
2. Archaic A changeable, fickle person.
3. Archaic A person of deficient intelligence.
changeling
Noun
a child believed to have been exchanged by fairies for the parents' real child
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.changelingchangeling - a person of subnormal intelligence
cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard
mongoloid - a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)
simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense
2.changeling - a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
child, kid, minor, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry, tyke - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
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Then Rebecca had gone away, and in the long months of absence her mind and soul had grown out of her mother's knowledge, so that now, when Aurelia had time and strength to study her child, she was like some enchanting changeling.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
It is a changeling who will lay ill-luck at our doors.
Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
And this changeling called herself by the same name as the many-coloured, clinging maid of yore; she of the frequent laughter, and the many sighs, and the kind, stolen glances.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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