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Meanings of changeling in English

Portuguese
idiota
Catalan
tanoca

A person of subnormal intelligence.

      idiota
      Usage of changeling in English
      1
      I'd never thought of the changeling story as a story of belonging.
      Arcadia falls
      2
      Nor need you fear that it will mark any abnormality or changeling.
      The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
      3
      Vivian may not be a changeling, but she is definitely a challenge.
      The Guardian
      4
      That's what turned Temple Bar into the boisterous changeling it is today.
      The Irish Times
      5
      I'd say he was a changeling, if I hadn't had him checked.
      Hell to pay
      6
      But he could not say what was done to the fairy changeling.
      Welsh Folk-Lore / a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of ...
      7
      She was looking at him as if he had become a changeling.
      Reach for Infinity
      8
      Let them be so: what will your drivelling, unintelligent, intractable changeling be?
      An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 / MDCXC, Base...
      9
      And what a changeling imp of a creature Dot is, after all!
      The Far Horizon
      10
      Is the 'changeling,' whom Locke so seriously discusses, of the human 'kind'?
      Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
      11
      Dumping out the five rounds in the cylinder, he inspected the changeling carefully.
      Murder in the Gunroom
      12
      He used a changeling, yes, but that wasn't an iron faery.
      The iron king
      13
      I'd only just managed to sell him on the idea of a changeling.
      Foxglove Summer
      14
      He is some changeling and not of the blood of Rury.
      The Coming of Cuculain
      15
      The bearded changeling swallowed and lowered his arms, looking at Meryl and Fix.
      Summer knight
      16
      I winked at the wolf and stepped forward to stand over the changeling.
      Summer knight
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