And while I'm being a dorky English major:
(also from the OED on-line--an extremely useful tool, if dorky [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])
"Halfling 1. One not fully grown; a stripling.
1794 Statist. Acc. Scotl., Forfarsh. XII. 304 (Jam.) Wages of a man servant £10..Of a haflin, £5. 1804 R. ANDERSON Cumberld. Ball. 87 She'd little to de, To tek sec a hawflin as he. Mod. Sc. Advt., Baker, Wanted, a stout Halflin, about 3 years at the trade."
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