halfling

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.