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名詞

mercat (複数形 mercats)

1. (obsolete) Market; trade.
   • December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall

     With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.

語源 2

From Middle Dutch meercatte.

名詞

mercat (複数形 mercats)

1. Obsolete form of meerkat.

語源 3

From mer- +‎ cat.

名詞

mercat (複数形 mercats)

1. A mermaid cat.
   • 1992, Aurelia Gomez, “Papier-mâché Mermaids”, in Crafts of Many Cultures: 30 Authentic Craft Projects from Around the World, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 22:

     You can also open this project up to encompass other mercreatures, such as merdogs, mercats, or merdeer.

   • 1995, Anna Fienberg, “The Mermaid with Wild Yellow Hair”, in Madeline the Mermaid, Allen & Unwin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 1:

     Madeline lived in a conch shell with her merdog called Byron and her mercat called Bella.

   • 2012, Richard Dungworth, “Mercats and Hairbrushes”, in Mrs Greene, Mermaid Queen, Ladybird Books, →ISBN:

     ‘To be honest, being a mercat – even a royal one – isn’t my thing. Cat and fish don’t mix. I keep wanting to eat my own fish tail. It’s very tiresome!’

   • 2018, Sibéal Pounder, “Hilma on the Chomp”, in Bad Mermaids: On the Rocks, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

     ‘The mercats like the mulch!’ one of the little mermaids said, as the whole lot of them wriggled out of the seaweed basket and dived into the stuff.