changeling

/cheynj-ling/US // ˈtʃeɪndʒ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ) //

变形金刚,变种人,变形人,变革

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a child surreptitiously or unintentionally substituted for another.
- : an ugly, stupid, or strange child left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child.
- : Philately. a postage stamp that, by accident or intention, has been chemically changed in color.
- : Archaic. a renegade or turncoat.an imbecile.

as insubstitute

Synonyms

This is more Changeling than Invictus, as far as director Eastwood is concerned.
To be fair, and slightly ashamed of myself, I did not watch Changeling.
Die foolish beoples in the island, they say she is a wechsel-balg—what you call a fairy-elf changeling.
One more story of a "changeling" before we leave the subject.
Everybody believed Ellis to have been a changeling, and one saying of his is well known in that part of the country.
The same writer gives a similar account of the changeling mentioned above, p. 107.
Thiele relates a story in which a wild stallion colt is brought in to smell two babes, one of which is a changeling.

/cheynj-ling/US // ˈtʃeɪndʒ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪŋ) //

变形金刚,变种人,变形人,变革

n.名词 noun

1
- : a child surreptitiously or unintentionally substituted for another.
- : an ugly, stupid, or strange child left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child.
- : Philately. a postage stamp that, by accident or intention, has been chemically changed in color.
- : Archaic. a renegade or turncoat.an imbecile.

as insubstitute

Synonyms

This is more Changeling than Invictus, as far as director Eastwood is concerned.
To be fair, and slightly ashamed of myself, I did not watch Changeling.
Die foolish beoples in the island, they say she is a wechsel-balg—what you call a fairy-elf changeling.
One more story of a "changeling" before we leave the subject.
Everybody believed Ellis to have been a changeling, and one saying of his is well known in that part of the country.
The same writer gives a similar account of the changeling mentioned above, p. 107.
Thiele relates a story in which a wild stallion colt is brought in to smell two babes, one of which is a changeling.