hermie
/ˈhɜːmi/
hermie noun: a hermit crab.
Noun (1)
hermie (plural hermies)
- A hermit crab.
- Your hermies need a second home to chill out in whenever they're sick or molting.2011, Kelli A. Wilkins, Hermit Crabs For Dummies
- […] she went right to work catching hermies in the millpond […]2012, George Howe Colt, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Noun (2)
hermie (plural hermies)
- A hermaphrodite.
- 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.2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →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.2007, KS Augustin, Hunted Hermaphrodite Lover, Challis Tower (publ.), →ISBN.
Proper noun capitalized: Hermie
Hermie
- A diminutive of the male given name Herman
- A diminutive of the female given name Hermione
Forms of hermie
| plural | hermies |
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Origin of hermie
From hermit + -ie.
From herm + -ie.
Words that rhyme with hermie
Questions about hermie
- What does hermie mean?
- Hermie means a hermit crab.
- What part of speech is hermie?
- Hermie can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hermie?
- Hermie is pronounced /ˈhɜːmi/.
- What is the plural of hermie?
- The plural of hermie is hermies.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hermie (page history and authors); Hermie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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