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changeling n. 调换儿,矮小丑陋的小孩,低能儿 调换儿,矮小丑陋的小孩,低能儿 changeling n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [ synonym: { idiot}, { imbecile}, { cretin}, { moron}, { changeling}, { half- wit}, { retard}] 2: a child secretly exchanged for another in infancyChangeling \ 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]
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] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " changeling": agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, change, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, elf child, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill- in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, next best thing, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, second string, secondary, sign, spares, stand- in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice- president, vice- regent
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