wasserman
See also: Wasserman
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Wassermann.
Noun edit
wasserman (plural wassermen)
- (obsolete) A mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The dreadfull Fish, that hath deseru'd the name / Of Death, and like him lookes in dreadfull hew, / The griesly Wasserman, that makes his game / The flying ships with swiftnesse to pursew […]