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changeling

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调换儿,矮小丑陋的小孩,低能儿

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

            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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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
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