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change|ling «CHAYNJ lihng», noun.

1. a child secretly left in place of another: »

She may have been…a changeling—the adopted daughter of gypsies (Time).

2. a strange, stupid, or ugly child, supposed to have been left by fairies in place of a child carried off by them.

3. Archaic. a person given to change; fickle or inconstant person; waverer; turncoat; renegade.

4. Archaic. a half-witted person; idiot; imbecile.

╂[< change + -ling]