halflings
halflings is the plural of halfling.
Meaning of halfling
Noun
halfling (plural halflings)
- A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
- A fictional humanoid born of a human parent and a parent of another race in fantasy fiction.
- A half-grown person, between a child and an adult.
- 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.1897, Lady's Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 52
Questions about halflings
- What is halflings the plural of?
- Halflings is the plural of halfling.
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