mermaid
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自中古英语 mermayde (“海的少女”),源自mere (“海,湖”) + maid,等价于mer- + maid。对比古英语 meremenn、meremennen、meremenin (“人鱼,妖女”)。
发音
编辑名词
编辑mermaid (复数 mermaids)
- 人鱼,美人鱼
- (作修饰词) 青绿色
- mermaid smoothie
- 青绿色奶昔
- (弃用) 妓女
- 1602, Thomas Dekker, Satiromastix, act 4, scene 2:
- A gentleman, or an honest citizen shall not sit in your penny-bench theaters, with his squirrel by his side cracking nuts; nor sneak into a tavern with his mermaid; but he shall be satir'd and epigramm'd upon […]
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