A Scottish or dialectal term for a half-grown boy or young man; a youth or adolescent.
From Scottish English, likely related to 'half' + diminutive suffix, used in Northern English and Scottish dialects.
Scottish dialect preserves words that died out in standard English—'hauflin' beautifully describes that awkward age between childhood and manhood that every culture recognizes!
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