changeling
Kelime Anlamı :
1. çok küçükken gizlice bir diğeri ile değiştirilen bebek.
2. bebek değiştirme.
3. bebekken başkası ile değişmiş çocuk.
4. perilerin değiştirdiği çocuk.
5. eski budala kimse.
6. aptal kimse.
7. perilerin değiştirdiğine inanılan bebek.
Tanımlar :
1.
A child secretly exchanged for another.
2. archaic A changeable, fickle person.
3. archaic A person of deficient intelligence.
2. archaic A changeable, fickle person.
3. archaic A person of deficient intelligence.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
in british, irish and scandinavian mythology, an infant of a fairy, sprite or troll that the creature has secretly exchanged for a human infant.
2. an infant secretly exchanged with another infant.
3. an organism which can change shape to mimic others.
2. an infant secretly exchanged with another infant.
3. an organism which can change shape to mimic others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
taken or left in place of another; changed.
2. given to change; inconstant.
3. one who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
4. A simpleton; an idiot.
5. one apt to change; a waverer.
2. given to change; inconstant.
3. one who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
4. A simpleton; an idiot.
5. one apt to change; a waverer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A child left or taken in the place of another; especially, in popular superstition, a strange, stupid, ugly child left by the fairies in place of a beautiful or charming child that they have stolen away.
2. figuratively, anything changed for or put in the place of another, or the act of so changing.
3. one apt to change; a waverer.
4. exchanged: specifically applied to a child fancied to have been exchanged for another by the fairies.
5. given to change; inconstant; fickle: as, “studiously changeling,”
2. figuratively, anything changed for or put in the place of another, or the act of so changing.
3. one apt to change; a waverer.
4. exchanged: specifically applied to a child fancied to have been exchanged for another by the fairies.
5. given to change; inconstant; fickle: as, “studiously changeling,”
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia