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swapling

noun

Etymology

From swap + -ling.

  1. inherited from swāpan
  2. inherited from *swappian✻
  3. inherited from swappen — “to swap”
  4. suffixed as swapling — “swap + ling”

Definitions

  1. An infant or child secretly exchanged for another

    An infant or child secretly exchanged for another; changeling.

    • A fire was kept burning in front of this and swaplings were kept inside to "poke away" the wild animals, including bears (as Grandma recalled being told).
    • The parents of the human girl child would scream when they found the swapling, cry out even louder than they were doing right now, and wail, and call for the queen's guard, and kneel in their churches, […]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for swapling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA