(n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other stage successes followed: Cole Porter's Red, Hot And Blue, with Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman, and the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, in which he sang I Can't Get Started With You to chorus girl Eve Arden.
(2) After West Side Story , he was in line to write the music for Gypsy , but Ethel Merman thought him too green, and it went to Jule Styne.