Found 2 items, similar to changeling.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: changeling 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
English → English (gcide) Definition: Changeling Changeling \Change"ling\, a. 1. Taken or left in place of another; changed. “A little changeling boy.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Some are so studiously changeling. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A simpleton; an idiot. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. [1913 Webster] Wildly we roam in discontent about. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. One apt to change; a waverer. “Fickle changelings.” --Shak. [1913 Webster]