Noun: merchild
| Singular | merchild |
| Plural | merchildren |
Sample Sentences
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The fish-tailed merchild carved in crumbling stone
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Wreathed with loose straggling roses, reigns alone... [1904, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Bibelot, page 160:]
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There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren. [2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57:]
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He shuddered as he thought about all the stories he had heard as a young merchild. [2003, Debbie Viguié, Midnight Pearls, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 80:]
Nouns inflected like merchild
subchild,
great grandchild,
natural child,
great-great-grandchild,
merchild,
boychild,
iPad child,
spirit child,
flower child,
paternal grandchild,
lovechild,
schoolchild,
snowflake child,
home child,
moonchild,
pretermitted child,
single child,
only child,
foster child,
anarchild, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From mer- + child.