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changeling

N เด็ก ที่ ถูก แอบ สับเปลี่ยน dek-ti-tuk-aeb-sab-pian

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHANGELING

n. 1. A child left or taken in the place of another.
2. An idiot; a fool.
3. One apt to change; a waverer.
4. Any thing changed and put in the place of another.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CHANGELING

Change "ling, n. Etym: [Change + -ling. ]

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.

CHANGELING

CHANGELING Change "ling, a.

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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

changeling

change ling |ˈCHānjliNG ˈtʃeɪnʤlɪŋ | ▶noun a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents' real child in infancy.

Oxford Dictionary

changeling

change |ling |ˈtʃeɪn (d )ʒlɪŋ | ▶noun a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents' real child in infancy.

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

changeling

change ling /tʃéɪn (d )ʒlɪŋ /名詞 C 1 ｟文｠取り替えっ子〘妖精（ようせい）が赤ん坊をさらい, 代わりに置いていく醜く頭の悪い子〙.2 ｟古｠気まぐれな人 ; 頭のよくない人 .