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merhusband

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English

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Etymology

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From mer- +‎ husband. Compare merwife.

Noun

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merhusband (plural merhusbands)

  1. A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.
    • 1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people:
      A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband. A mermaid begins to yearn for the wild freedom of life among the waves, and finds it is very difficult to adjust to the dry [...]
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