Merhusband

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.

    "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 [...]"

Example

More examples

"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 [...]"

Etymology

From mer- + husband. Compare merwife.

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