Definition of Changeling

Change´ling
n.1.One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.
- Shak.
2.A simpleton; an idiot.
3.One apt to change; a waverer.
a.1.Taken or left in place of another; changed.
2.Given to change; inconstant.
Some are so studiously changeling.
- Boyle.


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