Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rectangular, often tapering stone post bearing a carved head or bust, usually of Hermes, used as a boundary marker in ancient Greece and for decorative purposes in later periods.
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- abbreviation Abbreviation of
hermaphrodite . - noun sometimes pejorative A
hermaphrodite .
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- noun a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost
Etymologies
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Examples
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But then I stepped back, saw the name 'herm' and suddenly it wasn't so unbelievable.
Drudge Retort 2009
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Like your associate lefty herm who appears to speak for all lefties together with we woke, eh?
Google Upset by Racist Michelle Obama Image | Drudge Retort admin 2009
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#85 | Posted by herm during 2009-11-25 02: 38 PM |
Google Upset by Racist Michelle Obama Image | Drudge Retort admin 2009
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#85 | Posted by herm during 2009-11-25 02: 38 PM |
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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And this would require her to act, and particularly at the end of the first act, where she discovers that her daughter has left herm and she's going to make the other daughter fill the younger daughter's shoes and make her into a star.
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Like your associate lefty herm who appears to speak for all lefties together with we woke, eh?
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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And this would require her to act, and particularly at the end of the first act, where she discovers that her daughter has left herm and she's going to make the other daughter fill the younger daughter's shoes and make her into a star.
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They were written by pre-scientific people with mostly illiterate audiences who were not so nuanced as to get the herm..eh, oh forget it.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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I m shur herm majestickness haz beddur cointroll of de bubbls dan I do uv de body sails, LCB. lolcatburglar says:
Yewd be sad 2, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I sure do miss herm though, but I'm glad to discover this blog and -- Hi Buffy Squirrel; nice to see an old friend -- I'll hang out for a while.
treeseed commented on the word herm
Dictionary.com
–noun a monument consisting of a four-sided shaft tapering inward from top to bottom and bearing a head or bust; those of Hermes usually had an erect penis, which passersby stroked for luck.
January 26, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word herm
From "C. Musonius Rufus" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010
qms commented on the word herm
The prudish among us may squirm
But scholars and aesthetes confirm:
The carver of stone adds
Some prominent gonads
As tokens of luck on each herm.
March 6, 2018