changeling meaning

• Noun: changeling  cheynjling
  1. A person of subnormal intelligence
     - idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, half-wit, retard, thicko 
  2. A child secretly exchanged for another in infancy

  Derived forms: changelings

  Type of: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, simple, simpleton, small fry, tiddler [Brit], tike, tyke, wean [UK, Ireland], youngster

  Encyclopedia: Changeling

Examples

1. they are called cherubs by the rest of changeling society
2. i moved among them on the frozen liffey, that i, a changeling, among the spluttering resin fires
3. you mocking changeling-fairy-born and human-bred ! you make me feel as i have not felt these twelve months
4. it is for this reason that they have come down from their mountains and rejoined changeling society in large numbers
5. they care little for the machinations and politics of " ground folk ", and they rarely interfere with changeling society