halfling

n. 半成年人, 半便士的银币

发音

US /ˈhæflɪŋ/

词形变化

halflings 复数 halflings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    半身人

  2. 2.

    A fictional humanoid born of a human parent and a parent of another race in fantasy fiction.

  3. 3.

    A half-grown person, between a child and an adult.

词源

From half + -ling. Sense 3 ("half-grown young person") is attested to 1794. It was then used by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings (1954) as an alternative reference to members of his hobbit race. Hobbits were used in the original 1974 releases of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, but in later editions they were changed to "halflings" for legal reasons, as being a pre-existing word rather than one invented by Tolkien.

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