Definitions
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- noun A
mythological creature with ahuman upper half (head ,arms , andtorso ) and apiscine lower half.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's about this boy vampire that falls in love with this girl who's a werewolf/merperson (but she doesn't know it) and there's this other guy who's a cross between a warlock/faerie but he's also one-eight French.
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Why does The Little Mermaid sacrifice her very identity as a merperson to get her man?
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OK, OK, so maybe you are hardly ever - or maybe never - a merperson in world and certainly not IRL, but our own Akasha Wachmann has created a fantasyscape and playground that definitely merits your visit.
Archive 2007-08-01 Bettina Tizzy 2007
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OK, OK, so maybe you are hardly ever - or maybe never - a merperson in world and certainly not IRL, but our own Akasha Wachmann has created a fantasyscape and playground that definitely merits your visit.
Swim-in Theatre and MerMall Bettina Tizzy 2007
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Dumbledore was crouching at the water's edge, deep in conversation with what seemed to be the chief merperson, a particularly wild and ferocious-looking female.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
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Four people were bound tightly to the tail of the stone merperson.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
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A choir of merpeople was singing in the middle, calling the champions toward them, and behind them rose a crude sort of statue; a gigantic merperson hewn from a boulder.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
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As soon as we tired of making fun of his freakish merperson body, we found out he's an illiterate dumb-dumb.
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