CHANGELING

changeling. Changeling, n. a fickle or unsteady person, idiot, fool, silly fellow, child changed for another

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Change″ling, n. [[Change + -ling.]] 1. 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 never known. Shak. 2. 2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay.
Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden. 3. 3. One apt to change; a waverer. “Fickle changelings.” Shak.