单词 | halfling |
释义 | halflingn.adj. A. n. 1. Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern). A boy or girl who is not yet fully grown; a youth, an adolescent. Formerly sometimes: spec. †a boy or young man employed in a junior role in domestic, agricultural, or industrial work (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 1656 Edinb. Quarter Session 26 Mar. in C. H. Firth Scotl. & Protectorate (1899) App. 407 A Man Servant of younger Years, commonly called a Halfling, being a Domestick Servant, is to have Yearly for Fee..Twenty Merks Scots. 1662 in H. Paton Reg. Interments Greyfriars Burying-ground (1902) 1 Thomas [Abel], a haflin. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 358 Sae, lass, gin ye ha'e ony thrift, And I can mak' a haflin shift. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 304 Wages of a man servant £10..Of a haflin, £5. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 92 She'd little to de, To tek sec a hawflin as he. 1849 M. Oliphant Passages Life Margaret Maitland II. iv. 130 When I was a halflin, no far past the years of Mary, my niece. 1889 Belfast News-let. 17 Oct. 4/1 Bakers.—40 wanted:..Ovensmen: 32s to 35s; Halflins, 20s to 24s. a1930 N. Munro Son of City in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) i. viii. 37 Fine I ken whit the country is; did I no' leeve a hale winter aboot Dalry when I was a halflin'? 1998 S. Blackhall Bonsai Grower 19 The hinmaist loon tae bide in the chaumer hid bin a pee-the-bed halflin frae Glen Dav. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins baselinga1255 scute1472 basel1577 lundress1695 halfling1819 wire money1837 brabant1840 fifty-pence piece1969 twenty-pence piece1981 1774 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. II. vi. 488 Names of Anglo-Saxon money... The Halfling, or Halfpenny. 1778 J. Strutt Chron. Eng. II. iii. vi. 234 The halfling, so called from its being the half of a penny, is..reported to have been a real silver coin, and, if it was weight, it should have been 11 grains, or thereabout. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. vii. 98 ‘Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling’..said the Jew. 1876 All Year Round 9 Dec. 294/2 The penny, succeeded by halflings and feorthlings, also of silver. 3. In fantasy fiction, games, etc. a. A member of an imaginary race of small people. Originally in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien as the name given to Hobbits (hobbit n.) by the other races or peoples of Middle-earth (cf. middle-earth n. 1). Π ?c1944 J. R. R. Tolkien in C. Tolkien Hist. Middle-earth: War of Ring (1990) 149 If you be the Halfling that was named, then doubtless you held it before the eyes of all the Council of which you speak. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring ii. ii. 259 For Isildur's Bane shall waken, And the Halfling forth shall stand. 1966 Eng. Jrnl. 55 844/2 The Second Age is dying, the Third Age is at evening, and only the Halflings survive. 2006 PC Gamer Apr. 49/1 The action revolves around a classic quest format in which you—as an Elf, Human or Halfling—must form a fellowship of adventurers to take on missions. b. An imaginary being who is the offspring of a human and a member of an imaginary race of people or creatures, or of members of two different imaginary races. Π 1953 L. Brackett Sword of Rhiannon viii. 47 There were also the Halflings—the races who are manlike but not descended of the same blood. The Swimmers, who sprang from the sea-creatures, and the Sky Folk, who came from the winged things. 1994 Interzone Oct. 63/3 Turns out he's a halfling, half the mortal son of a chess-playing dad who wins his fairy bride from one of the deathside peers of the Sidhe, and half the fairy son of that bride. 2020 A. R. Vagnetti Forbidden Storm (e-book, accessed 19 May 2022) ii. 16 The night Nicki discovered vampires existed, she further learned who and what she was: a vampire halfling. B. adj. Π a1661 S. Rutherford Cruel Watchmen (1728) 28 I love Christ, says the Mid-way Man, or the Halfling Man, as well as the best of them. 1705 Observator No. 2. 14 There were a great many Gentlemen, hafline Gentlemen, and Honest men's bairns among them. 1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 1 Some outlandish half'lin [sic] creatures Nae o' God's mak. 1841 J. Imlah Poems & Songs 264 A haflin being, man, thou art, Without a fairer, better part. 1897 T. Murray Frae Heather 109 His halflin proffers thoroughly scan Afore ye plight yer troth. 2. Scottish. Of an object: half the full or normal size, length, etc.; (more generally) of reduced or intermediate size. Frequently in halfling plane: a trying plane used by carpenters. Now rare. Π 1780 Aberdeen Jrnl. 31 July (advt.) Large Iron Sways, halfling and quarter Irons, Pinches, breaking Hammers and Mells, Picks, Jumpers and charging Tools. a1866 W. Knight Auld Yule (1869) 85 But sair he miss'd the hauflin boots, Mid cracklin' whins and knabblick roots. 1937 St Andrews Times 15 Dec. 2 We had to plane it doon wi' a halflin plane and then wi' a jack plane. 1980 Rep. Board Trustees National Mus. Antiquaries Scotl. 1979–80 32 Butter bowie, butter knife, set of wooden eggcups, two pirn tops, halflin plane, Wanzer plaiting machine. 3. Chiefly Scottish. Not yet fully grown; adolescent; (also) of or relating to an adolescent or adolescence. Formerly sometimes with specific reference to a boy or young man employed in a junior role in domestic, agricultural, or industrial work. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [adjective] > adolescent adolescent1481 undergrown1601 pubescent1646 halfling1801 halflang1805 teenish1811 halfling1815 teening1818 puberala1856 puberate1880 pre-adult1899 teenage1912 teenaged1913 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 185 My mother sent me, that was a hafflin callant. 1819 Scots Mag. Mar. 220/1 When she was a hafflin' cummer, about sixteen years of age. 1895 G. Williams Scarbraes 50 Willie Simpson, now ‘a ha'flin' birkie’, was engaged by Kirkton as his ‘orra man’. 1904 Dennison's Orcadian Sketches (new ed.) 1 I keepid kye that summer, and wroucht halflin' wark the year efter. a1930 N. Munro Degenerate Days in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) i. iii. 11 In the auld days they didna drag a halflin callan in frae Stra'ven [etc.]. 1991 K. Armstrong in T. Hubbard New Makars 113 Aince, lang syne, in ma halflin days. 4. In fantasy fiction, games, etc.: designating a halfling (see sense A. 3); of, relating to, or characteristic of halflings. Π 1953 L. Brackett Sword of Rhiannon xiii. 87 You have Halfling wisdom—is there no way to be rid of the monstrous thing within me? 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iii. viii. 163 All that is said among us is that far away, over many hills and rivers, live the halfling folk that dwell in holes in sand-dunes. 1973 Mythlore No. 9 8/1 In this footnote the name of Theoden's halfling esquire is given as Holdwine. 1992 Dragon Mag. Feb. 7/2 The DM can ‘forbid elven, gnome and halfling Assassin..since this profession is quite antithetical to their cultures’. 2002 L. A. Griffith Dark Embrace (e-book, accessed 19 May 2022) 626 One's a master werewolf, one's a halfling vampire, and one's a dragon king. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). † halflingadv. Obsolete (Scottish after 15th cent.). To the extent or amount of half; (more generally) in part, partially; to a certain extent, in some degree. Cf. half adv. 1, halflings adv. 1. Π OE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Trin.) (Dict. Old Eng. transcript) (1871) xxxi. 207 Be þam sceamfæstan hyt ys nyttere þæt him man on tælan wylle, þæt hyt man healflinga [eOE Hatton healfunga] sprece swylce hyt man hrepige. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Ii.4.6) (Dict. Old Eng. transcript) (1997) viii. 245 Þes hundredes ealdor genealæhte þam hælende: na healflunga [OE Royal healfunga] ac fulfremedlice. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 261 He nis bute halflung up on godes rode. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 106 Haluelinge j foryat grace dieu. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xlix Thus halflyng lous for haste. c1550 Clariodus (1830) iv. 1789 So com ane buke by him at the last, Into his way, halfling him againe. a1586 in R. Maitland Genealogy House & Surname Setoun (1830) 47 He for sorrow halfling deit. 1726 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd (ed. 2) iv. ii. 63 Duty, and haflen Reason plead his Cause. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). ˈhalflinghalflingsadv. Now only Sc. a. To the extent of a half, half; in part, partially. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adverb] halfling?c1200 a-party1340 uncompletelyc1380 imperfectlyc1400 parcel1415 party1440 unfullyc1449 parcel-likea1475 partiallya1475 halflyc1480 a part1481 parta1500 parcelly gilt1509 diminutely1521 partly1523 partlings1564 portionally1617 incompletely1651 informedly1670 fragmentally1814 fragmentarily1856 part-way1954 α. β. ?c1200 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16575 Off swillke þatt hemm turrndenn swa. Hallflinngess to þe laferrd.a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) 168 Than vp I lenyt halflingis in affrey.1592 Lyndesay's Wks. Prol. 3 (Jam.), I stude gazing halflingis in ane trance.1786 R. Burns Cotter's Saturday Night vii, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 147 While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak.?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 12 Haflins seen and haflins hid.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 261 He nis bute halflung up on godes rode. 1423 Kingis Quair xlix, Thus halflyng louse for haste. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. lxxxv. 106 Haluelinge j foryat Grace dieu. b. quasi-adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [adjective] > adolescent adolescent1481 undergrown1601 pubescent1646 halfling1801 halflang1805 teenish1811 halfling1815 teening1818 puberala1856 puberate1880 pre-adult1899 teenage1912 teenaged1913 1801 R. Gall Tint Quey 175 Wi' Habby Græme the haflins fool. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 224 My father was then a haflins callant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2016). < n.adj.1656adv.OEadv.?c1200 |
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