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merbrother

noun

Etymology

From mer- + brother.

  1. inherited from *bʰréh₂tēr✻ — “brother”
  2. inherited from *brōþēr✻ — “brother”
  3. inherited from *brōþer✻
  4. inherited from brōþor
  5. inherited from broder
  6. prefixed as merbrother — “mer + brother”

Definitions

  1. A brother who is a merman or merboy.

    • there’d be a time to say my brother is survived by our merbrother
    • The merbrothers were suddenly impatient to leave.
    • Then she saw that Petronella’s merbrothers Jolly, Julian, Joseph, John, Jerry, Jimmy, and Jupiter were pushing the boat towards the river bank to the place where it sloped gently.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA