merhusband

English

Etymology

From mer- +‎ husband. Compare merwife.

Noun

merhusband (plural merhusbands)

1. A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.
   • 1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people:

     A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband. A mermaid begins to yearn for the wild freedom of life among the waves, and finds it is very difficult to adjust to the dry [...]