hermie
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɜːmi/, /ˈhɝmi/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mi
Etymology 1
From hermit + -ie.
Noun
hermie (plural hermies)
- (informal) hermit crab
- 2011, Kelli A. Wilkins, Hermit Crabs For Dummies
- Your hermies need a second home to chill out in whenever they're sick or molting.
- 2012, George Howe Colt, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
- […] she went right to work catching hermies in the millpond […]
- 2011, Kelli A. Wilkins, Hermit Crabs For Dummies
Etymology 2
From herm + -ie.
Noun
hermie (plural hermies)
- (informal) hermaphrodite
- 2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →ISBN.
- If a favorite variety tends to “go hermie", growers often pick out individual male flowers as they are discovered. Some growers let the pollen from these hermaphrodites fertilize females.
- 2007, KS Augustin, Hunted Hermaphrodite Lover, Challis Tower (publ.), →ISBN.
- Get rid of the hermie, get rid of the sex-starved engineer, jail the saboteur, write the reports, then sit back and enjoy the peace.
- 2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →ISBN.
Anagrams
- Heimer