Meaning of hermie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the male given name Herman
2. A hermit crab.
   childish, informal
3. A hermaphrodite.
   informal
4. A diminutive of the female given name Hermione

Examples

“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.”

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