hermie

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhɜːmi/, /ˈhɝmi/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mi

Etymology 1

From hermit +‎ -ie.

Noun

hermie (plural hermies)

  1. (informal or childish) A 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 […]

Etymology 2

From herm +‎ -ie.

Noun

hermie (plural hermies)

  1. (informal) A 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.

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