Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hermie

/ˈhɜːmi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English

Syllables: her-mie
IPA: /ˈhɜːmi/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Informal

noun

A hermaphrodite.

Informal

name

A diminutive of the male given name Herman

name

A diminutive of the female given name Hermione

Example Sentences

"Your hermies need a second home to chill out in whenever they're sick or molting."
"[…] she went right to work catching hermies in the millpond […]"
"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."

Etymology

From hermit + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hermit, herm

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

hermies (plural)

Rhymes With

fermi wormy spermy

Questions

How do you pronounce hermie?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɜːmi/.
What does hermie mean?: A hermit crab.
Where does hermie come from?: From hermit + -ie.

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