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- noun Plural form of
merman .
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Examples
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This belief in mermen, possible originating with the caricatures of the human face in the intelligent seal and stupid manatee, is universal.
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Whales, porpoises, mermaids and mermen, dead sailors, fishes, crabs, tiny shrimps; the sea is forever full of eyes that watch me.
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(Can't say the same for the Disney flicks about leprechauns or mermen, but I'm not ruling anything out just because those particular residual effects haven't cropped up yet.)
Katie Hawkes: Smart Phone Phobia: One Millennial's Aversion to Creepy Technology Katie Hawkes 2010
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Revenge of the mermen means an egg hunt and a lot less pancakes for Hellboy.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Oddest Jobs - Christopher Golden Blue Tyson 2008
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Life as a mermaid is much easier than all this! we lay piles of eggs on the coral reef and the mermen fertilise them. then we all go off and play water volley ball.
The Full Brazilian Newmania 2008
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Even at the end of the book, questions about the nature of Ashbless (is he an old man with the same name as an 18th century poet, or is he the 18th century poet?), Giles Peach, mermen, Han Koi and the pirates living on the subterranean ocean under California, Hilario Frosticos, and just what is really happening, go largely unanswered.
Book Report: The Digging Leviathan, by James P. Blaylock Ulysses 2008
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Even at the end of the book, questions about the nature of Ashbless (is he an old man with the same name as an 18th century poet, or is he the 18th century poet?), Giles Peach, mermen, Han Koi and the pirates living on the subterranean ocean under California, Hilario Frosticos, and just what is really happening, go largely unanswered.
Archive 2008-12-01 Ulysses 2008
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Revenge of the mermen means an egg hunt and a lot less pancakes for Hellboy.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Hellboy - 10 Oddest Jobs Blue Tyson 2008
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When I first heard the word merkin, I thought it had something to do with mermaids and mermen, all fresh fish below the waist.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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There were gracefully curving slides made of polished marble, mermaids and mermen, sea monsters, fountains, and pools of turquoise water topped with lily pads.
ATHENA THE BRAIN JOAN HOLUB 2010
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