Meaning of halfling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
2. 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.

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Examples

“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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