mermaid
Plural: mermaids
Noun
- A mythical marine creature with a human torso and a fish tail.
- half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
- A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
- Coloured a brilliant turquoise.
- A prostitute.
Examples
- a mermaid smoothie
- mermaid ice-cream
- She imagined a MERMAID swimming across the board with her letters.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mermayde (“maid of the sea”), from mere (“sea, lake”) + maid, equivalent to mer- + maid. Cognate with Dutch meermeid (“mermaid”), Middle High German mermaget, mermeit (“mermaid”, > German Meermagd, Meermädchen (“mermaid”)). Compare Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”).
Synonyms
'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, hackney, harlot, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mergirl, merlady, mermaid, mermaiden, merwoman, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
Scrabble Score: 12
mermaid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmermaid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mermaid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary