merchild
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
merchild (plural merchildren)
- The young of either sex of a legendary creature, human from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
- 1904, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Bibelot, page 160:
- The fish-tailed merchild carved in crumbling stone
Wreathed with loose straggling roses, reigns alone...