mermaid
英語
編輯詞源
編輯源自中古英語 mermayde (「海的少女」),源自mere (「海,湖」) + maid,等價於mer- + maid。對比古英語 meremenn、meremennen、meremenin (「人魚,妖女」)。
發音
編輯名詞
編輯mermaid (複數 mermaids)
- 人魚,美人魚
- (作修飾詞) 青綠色
- mermaid smoothie
- 青綠色奶昔
- (棄用) 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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