merman

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6

Definition of merman

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
    “The meer man hath no feet but fins And this hath legs you see and shins.”

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Etymology

From Middle English mereman, from Old English *meremann (“merman”) (suggested by Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”)), equivalent to mer- + man. Cognate with Dutch meerman (“merman”), German Meermann (“merman”).

Anagrams of merman

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