From swap + -ling. <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">swaplings</span>) An infant or child secretly exchanged for another; changeling. Synonyms: auf, changeling, oaf 1993, Huntington...
<span class="searchmatch">swaplings</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span> spawlings, wasplings...
lapwings plural of lapwing spawling, <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span>, waspling...
which is spawled, or spat out. 1693, William Congreve, Juvenal's Satires: Whose marble floors with drunken spawlings shine. lapwings, <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span>, waspling...
changeling; an infant of a magical creature secretly exchanged for a human infant Synonym: wisselbalg <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span>; an infant secretly exchanged for another...
moron, fool; see also Thesaurus:unskilled person (elf's child): auf, <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span> oafish oaf-rocked imbecile ^ “auf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary...
Scoullar, Wasp Season: Now safely sealed within a cell, she fed on both the defenceless spiders and the developing waspling. lapwings, spawling, <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span>...
another family in a different [language] environment to learn a language) <span class="searchmatch">swapling</span>, changeling (a child exchanged for another at birth) cserediák (exchange...