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.

Anagrams

• Heimer