halfling

English

Etymology

half + -ling

Noun

halfling (plural halflings)

  1. (fantasy) A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
  2. (fantasy) A fictional humanoid born of a human parent and a parent of another race in fantasy fiction.
  3. A half-grown person, between a child and an adult.
    • 1897, Lady's Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 52:
      Often it had been my fate to accompany the pick of the knight errantry of Whinnyliggate on such quests—for, though Nance was about my own age, she had become a reigning belle while I was but a halfling boy.

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