halfling

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.

Equivalents

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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