merman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

mermen plural

词源

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”).
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