merman
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- noun
- /ˈmɜːrmən/
- Literature
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tritón
- He's mad at me, because I swam away from home three days before I'm supposed to get married off to this merman who's about as deep as a tidal pool.
Examples
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During the summer festival, the town celebrated the legend of a merman who is said to guard the nearby reef.
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Oh, who could the lucky merman be?
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I thought you said a merman was after me.
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Just keep the little merman away from me while I work.
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Well, I wonder who the lucky merman is.
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I am never gonna see a merman.
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We all know trouts are boring, but merman are exciting.
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I was starting to think that maybe this wasn't a tuna but a merman.
Fiction book (2002) -
Meet the bewitching Miss Atlantis... now performing underwater Shakespeare, with the world's only living merman, Puck!
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A merman representing the Babylonian water god Oannes was sculpted on an eighth-century B.C. relief at Khorsabad in modern Iraq.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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Imaginary people with a human upper body and a fish tail who live in the sea
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An imaginary creature with a human upper body and a fish tail that lives in the sea
A woman or man with a fish tail who lives in the sea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Merman follows the same pattern as mermaid: mer- means 'sea' and -man means 'man', so it literally means a 'sea-man'. That's why a merman is a male creature with a human upper body and a fish tail who lives in the sea.